How incredible is the weather this week so far?!
I woke up today to a clear blue sky and a beautiful breeze, the only thing missing was the sound of birds singing... well, maybe they were singing their little lungs out but were drowned out by traffic noise.
Driving to work - sun roof open - the view of the blue sky was spoiled by a trailing cloud of black smoke coming from the north, probably from Sabbiya, and it got me thinking about air pollution.
How clean is our air? I looked for an air quality index but couldn't find anything. That cloud of smoke was at least visible, but what about supposedly clear blue days? Are they really as clear as we think? How bad is our air pollution index?
Zaydoun, I tried to avoid thinking of that creeping dark cloud on the drive to work..i kept saying 'look at the blue, look at the blue' but there it was snaking around over the city..i was too depressed to take a picture of it..
ReplyDeleteThere is an air monitoring system in kwt and you can check it online, but I have no idea how I found it the last time I saw it..
it is bad, no need for any studies to prove so, and will get worst.
ReplyDeleteJust smell the air in a nice European villags, full of diesel cars and smell it here. There is a different smell and feel of the air.
And I suggerst Marvin Gaye's Mercy Mercy Me as background music to this post
ReplyDeleteay hard ay bateekh.
ReplyDeleteThanks Zaydoun for bringing the pollution subject to attention.
ReplyDeleteI posted an entry related to yours:
Pollution 2
And what to say of noise pollution and the pollution of minds!
ReplyDeleteI give up.