Dorje Gurung, ScD (h.c.)
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05-12-2012 05:21:40
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Dorje Gurung, ScD (h.c.) I feel like today has been worse. I was struggling to get enough air for most of the day
Dorje Gurung, ScD (h.c.) TTeacher๐ณ๐ต๐ฑ Is it mostly dust? Or, vehicular exhausts, biomass burning, industrial emissions?
๐ผ๐๐๐ฎ โ ๐๐ง๐๐๐๐๐ฃ ๐งข Dorje Gurung, ScD (h.c.) TTeacher๐ณ๐ต๐ฑ I think the reason for the recent one was a forest fire.
Agnostic_Girl Dorje Gurung, ScD (h.c.) TTeacher๐ณ๐ต๐ฑ Just saw Kunda Dixit's tweet about forest fires.
Now that the temperatures are rising and monsoon is still months away, the first forest will continue this air pollution for months.
๐ผ๐๐๐ฎ โ ๐๐ง๐๐๐๐๐ฃ ๐งข Agnostic_Girl Dorje Gurung, ScD (h.c.) I hope we get some relief from it. Itโs awful.
TTeacher๐ณ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ผ๐๐๐ฎ โ ๐๐ง๐๐๐๐๐ฃ ๐งข Agnostic_Girl I doubt it! We are in #ForestFire season now, & worse, humans DELIBERATELY cause a large majority of them. If my memory servs me right, last year something like 90% of them had been. ๐ข๐ข๐ข #Kathmandu #Nepal #AirPollution #Fire #Particulates
Dorje Gurung, ScD (h.c.) TTeacher๐ณ๐ต๐ฑ Agnostic_Girl Yeah, Agnostic_Girl told me about the forest fire being the cause of the current air pollution.
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๐๐ง๐๐๐๐๐ฃ ๐งข TTeacher๐ณ๐ต๐ฑ Agnostic_Girl Yup, I recalled correctly: last year, humans were the cause of >90% of the #ForestFires in #Nepal . #AirPollution
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๐๐ง๐๐๐๐๐ฃ ๐งข TTeacher๐ณ๐ต๐ฑ Agnostic_Girl And why do Nepalis set fire to forests?
See below. ๐ข๐ข๐ข๐ข๐ข #Nepal #AirPollution #ForestFires twitter.com/Dorje_sDooing/โฆ