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U.S. researchers: Baghdad suffocating .. And pollution makes it worse in the world
On: Sat 07/09/2011 8:53
did not come Katie Cahill never to Iraq, but I cried after the inhaled air Iraq: "Oh my God, I did not see air this bad before!". If the organizations of the Global Environment classified the recent Baghdad, as one of the dirtiest cities in the world, the researcher atmospheric chemistry in the region of Iraq considered the most polluted in the world.
And provide the cylinder charred samples in her computer at the University of Alaska Verbnks diagnosis of a living heart of the city of Baghdad.
This is a machine that looks like a black bag large dust volatile unknown and the black layer of dust black, but covered drum with eight filters to make them memorable completely. This model was returned to the university after a tour in Iraq, where he was testing the air at Camp Victory in Baghdad.
and there are lines of black thick appear polluted industrial heavy, covering each and every one of those filters, which are covered with tape Munawar incandescent shows a sand storm covering the region and immersed the device in question.
and Cahill, "Assistant Professor" for the air chemistry at the university in question, and it says a scene Munther risk, even for personal spent most of her life under a cloud ice in Fairbanks. It still recalls her shock when I looked for the first time one of filters that were returned in 2008.
at the time said, "Oh my God, I did not see a model never this bad." Have included a scene that polluted the air breathed by thousands of American soldiers and millions of Iraqis every day. It is also another piece of evidence that Cahill hopes that it will show the challenges faced by persons who are exposed to such circumstances.
In her study of the three years that allocated for the Study of Iraq, he says Cahill, who air the worst she's seen in decades of searching all over the world. She says: "The Middle East is one of the dirtiest places on earth."
According to Jeff Richardson researcher strategic in the newspaper Fair Bank, the terms of the quality of the air encountered by military personnel in Iraq had been a concern since the end of 2003 at least, when it began, Captain Mark Wales College of Naval War collection forms a surface dust, which appeared to be covering everything in Iraq.
has been shown to Wiles, a researcher with a medical from a tooth in the fleet, was concerned that medical facilities had been destroyed by soot, has sent these models for analysis, and found that the dust is different about anything that might face the soldiers after their return to the United States.
He said that the minute dust model in Iraq is smaller than red blood cells, balls, and may include a model of them, a lot of different heavy metals, bacteria and fungi. According to Wiles that the natural conditions of the soldiers in the Middle East - where they work in an atmosphere of cocktails while acquiring a lot of canned food - make them swallow down the large amount of air dusty.
He told Wales that the army did not reach official status on the consequences of air dirt. He personally believed that the elements comprising the air may contribute to respiratory diseases and common syndromes among Gulf War veterans. Has helped his discoveries in urging further research on the characteristics of the air in Iraq, including programs Cahill that cost three million dollars with the Research Laboratories army and launched through the participation of Senator Ted Stevens.
Since February 2008, the Feltradtha where samples of air from several sources in Iraq and Afghanistan. Cahill says that each study from both sources to prove and bring the previous results. She said: "You got a package of different individuals has reached all to the same results." Team Cahill, which also includes graduate student at the same university, Jennifer, Bill and Todd Fortin, analyzed the samples 28 members, and some, such as sulfur and some of them could be the result of certain industries - says Cahill that the common use of gasoline gray waste plants dirty is definitely behind some of these problems. But the issue is very complex to attribute to a particular industry or a military source in itself. Cahill says: "The problem with all this is that there is no easy solution, because it comes from everywhere." Show sandstorms common being to contribute to the result of decades of military activities in the region. Wales says that the natural crust that keeps the dust of the desert to sleep, have been destroyed by the myriad of patrols and convoys, which increased dramatically the amount of airborne dust. And federal standards in the United States in the amount of dust pollution is 35 micrograms of particles per square meter to 24-hour period, but Cahill says that even flexible military standards of 65 micrograms is even superior class, especially in heavy industry in Iraq. Even at its highest levels of 500 micrograms is exceeding those standards in the sand.
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