Coachella Valley smog has gotten worse, and climate change could be to blame

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Air quality officials will miss a 2019 federal deadline to clean smog in the Coachella Valley, saying the challenges of “hotter summer weather and the threat of climate change” are hampering efforts to slash health-damaging ozone.

Visitors on their bikes pass under cool mist in Palm Springs on June 20, 2017, a day on which the temperature reached 122 degrees.

Regulators and scientists say global warming will make smog harder to control because higher temperatures speed up the photochemical process by which pollution from factories, power plants, vehicles and other sources form ozone. Ozone levels in the Coachella Valley increased in 2017 and 2018, according to the South Coast air district. Last year was also the, according to an analysis of federal temperature data by the scientific research and communications organization Climate Central.

 

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lol yep it must be climate change, and not the wildfires causing smokey smog. The entire Los Angeles Basin, including the desert, was called 'The Valley of Smoke' by the Natives long before any cities/fwys/oil drilling etc were there....because of FIRES.

MakeSmogGreatAgain No great loss, most of the bungholes that live there are trumplicons.

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