Actually, your ranting and don't know what is going on.OaktownBear said:wifeisafurd said:Stop confusing things with facts. Let the self-proclaimed experts rant.Cal88 said:
One of the other red spots on the US maps is in south TX, current air quality level in much of Houston is 200 as of 5om CDT, I think it's their basic smog problem on a day with stagnant air, I doubt they're about to cancel any sporting events there though...
In Europe, several Spanish cities including Madrid are at the top of the scale, a reading of 100 on that scale corresponds to a polutant density of 400 micrograms per cubic meter, so more than twice current Berkeley levels
http://www.airqualitynow.eu/comparing_home.php
http://www.airqualitynow.eu/about_indices_definition.php
On a bad day, Beijing and Shanghai get up to 600 micrograms per cubic meter:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/01/16/china-smog-air-pollution/4504729/
At this point you guys are just being jerks. You are not here so you have no idea what is going on so you are being slaves to a number that may or may not really be equivalent. I can only speculate that the standard is not as effective at dealing with an acute incident like a massive wildfire. But while you two self proclaimed experts think you can read a number and apply it, the experts here are advising completely differently from what you think you know. Schools have been closed all over the place. I guarantee you, Houston's normal smog is not worse than what we've been dealing with. You can go on thinking we are wimps all you want while everyone here tries to tell you what it is like here and just keep revealing yourselves to be massively insensitive *******s. I started out scoffing at this and changed my tune quickly as things got worse. Tequila, who has generally been an anti-snowflake kinda guy also described misjudging the situation. The ESPN sideline reporter said she didn't know how you play football in this (when the air had significantly improved). Right now on the Game they are debating this with respect to the Raiders and taking calls from people who work outside. I heard a construction welder and a guy who hauls heavy machinery- two obvious snowflakes who can't hang. Latter guy said he has $500 in tickets to the Raider game and he is happy to eat the cost. They shouldn't play. (What a p****). But you tough guys can belittle everything from miles away.
The air seems to be clearing enough today. But congrats on blindly following the administration without question. It's not like they've had to admit negligence in safety practices in court or anything. We can trust them blindly.
The Pac deals with this all the time, as events are held (or not held) in non-attainment areas. UCLA, for example, plays regularly in Pasadena (at night) during September and plays games when the air quality improves at night, all without the hysteria and emotion, despite daily readings above 200. In fact, the La Tuna Fire, the largest in LA County history, was a few miles from the Rose Bowl, and in fact caused freeway closures next to the stadium, and the game went on in mid-90 temps in early evening.
You continuing blame directed at Cal and the local governmental agency is ludicrous. The protocols are already established by the Conference and relies on CARB standards which have been followed by the EPA and most states. The arbitrary numbers comment defies all the studies and hearings before passing the standards, all of which you can find on line.
Measurements on campus at 7:30, game time, have all been below 80, and are predicted to be below 80 tonight. Cancellations during the day make sense when there is non-attainment.
I'm probably an insensitive jerk because I had to listen to the uniformed, hysterical public constantly make emotional appeals about the sky falling in hearings for a living. But let's all be Donald Trump and not blindly follow science instead.
