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Earthquake in Nepal: Children Need Your Help Now
Nearly 1 million children require humanitarian assistance, and UNICEF is on the ground working to provide critical aid to children and families.
“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”
Francis Bacon (1561-1626, bio link)
"When The Levee Breaks" Led Zeppelin - music link
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Team HRC Members Suffer Monoxide Poisoning While Asleep In France
Fullnoise
Three hospitality staff from Team HRC, the factory Honda team competing in the MXGP Motocross World Championship, were found to have suffered Carbon Monoxide poisoning whilst sleeping in the team’s hospitality truck, as they always do when travelling to and from races…
Update – victim and source of poisoning identified
Man Dies Following Carbon Monoxide Exposure
CapeNews.net
A 62-year-old man found suffering at a Sagamore business from carbon monoxide exposure died the evening of Wednesday, May 27,… unresponsive in a small office next to a gas-powered pressure washer that was running,…
Special Section: Powering the Future
Discover Magazine
Chances are you’re reading these words by the light of fossil fuels. Coal, oil and natural gas still account for 67 percent of energy use in the United States, a figure that sums up the nation’s conflicted stance on renewable energy… Those carbon sources — the decomposed remains of prehistoric plants and animals — fueled an economic, industrial and social renaissance. But powering up came with a steep cost. Since the Industrial Revolution, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen 42 percent. Greenhouse gases have…
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What is in the air you are breathing right now?
What will you be doing today; walking into poison?
Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?
CO and Air Quality News Links
Breath tests for mothers to warn of smoking risk to unborn babies
Evening Standard
Figures show that maternal smoking is to blame for more than 2,000 premature births and 5,000 miscarriages every year in the UK… The aim of breath checks is also to detect the hidden harms of second-hand smoke and traffic pollution on unborn children…
Extreme heat, poor air quality this weekend
InMaricopa.com
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality in Phoenix issued an ozone high pollution advisory for the Greater Phoenix area… Ozone is an air contaminant. High levels of ozone can cause breathing issues for children and adults with respiratory conditions. The NWS recommends a decrease in physical activities while the air quality alert is in effect…
India's Deadly Heat Wave Could Be a Glimpse of Things to Come
VICE News
Scientists say that warming is being driven by carbon dioxide and other emissions from the burning of fossil fuels like coal. At current levels of emissions, the expected warming is likely to be closer to 4 C (7.2 F)… That leaves India in a touchy spot as it tries to extend the benefits of an electrified society—like air conditioning, for instance —to all 1.2 billion of its people…
What Humanity's Impact on Earth Will Look Like to Future Geologists
The New Republic
“new age of humans.” This shift is meant to signify the outsized role one species—our species, Homo sapiens, “wise man”—has begun to play on the planet. We move three times more earth and stone than all the world's rivers, even building our own islands. We have created new types of rocks, like the plastiglomerate formed from lava and discarded six-pack rings in Hawaii. We’ve even changed the chemistry of the atmosphere, raising global concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by 0.01 percent… That doesn't sound like much, but it’s enough to touch levels never before breathed by our species since our distant ancestors evolved some 200,000 years ago. And it’s also enough to raise global average temperatures by nearly a degree Celsius to date—a number that’s steadily rising…
Johnson County Contractor Licensing Conference
CO EXperts
A well put together video is found with the next link, but remember U.L. 2034 Listed CO Alarms are high level alarms. Use them for protection against accute levels, but be aware you can still experience symptoms of the poisoning even though the devices are in place.
About Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
DailyMotion
About Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive
- Current Data for Atmospheric CO2
- Federal Aviation Administration CO warning
- Carbon monoxide toxicity-Emergency Medicine Ireland
- Carbon Monoxide Survivor- Views from those who have been poisoned.
- Carbon Monoxide detection- National Fire Protection Association
Increased education, awareness can prevent carbon monoxide poisoning Minnesota Department of Commerce
· Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-Nine U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2014
Alaska | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Florida |
Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan |
Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York |
The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece Instruments
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
"When The Levee Breaks" Led Zeppelin - music link
Featured News Links – More news links below
Team HRC Members Suffer Monoxide Poisoning While Asleep In France
Fullnoise
Three hospitality staff from Team HRC, the factory Honda team competing in the MXGP Motocross World Championship, were found to have suffered Carbon Monoxide poisoning whilst sleeping in the team’s hospitality truck, as they always do when travelling to and from races…
Update – victim and source of poisoning identified
Man Dies Following Carbon Monoxide Exposure
CapeNews.net
A 62-year-old man found suffering at a Sagamore business from carbon monoxide exposure died the evening of Wednesday, May 27,… unresponsive in a small office next to a gas-powered pressure washer that was running,…
Special Section: Powering the Future
Discover Magazine
Chances are you’re reading these words by the light of fossil fuels. Coal, oil and natural gas still account for 67 percent of energy use in the United States, a figure that sums up the nation’s conflicted stance on renewable energy… Those carbon sources — the decomposed remains of prehistoric plants and animals — fueled an economic, industrial and social renaissance. But powering up came with a steep cost. Since the Industrial Revolution, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen 42 percent. Greenhouse gases have…
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We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others
The following link takes you to a site with views from those who have been poisoned. The seriousness of carbon monoxide poisoning, the grief, suffering and disorientations experienced are clearly portrayed with the intent to help others and prevent future poisonings. With respect, please visit:
What is in the air you are breathing right now?
What will you be doing today; walking into poison?
Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?
You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.
We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.
Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again. The degree of the poisoning depends upon allowing yourself to be in a situation where someone else controls the air you breathe and the mechanisms for alarming notification.
Please read the alarm information on the package and in the instructions that come with the carbon monoxide alarm. Know that if it is a U.L. 2034 Listed product (or CSA 6.19 Listed), it is a high level alarm that has been tested to alarm no sooner than 70 PPM at the lowest (the alarm must resist for one hour when above this level) and when over 400 PPM before 15 minutes at the highest concentration, after resisting alarming for 4 minutes when over this level.
Know when your fire department and emergency responders begin wearing their breathing apparatus and what their civilian evacuation levels are for carbon monoxide; it may be as soon as the gas is present in your presence. Pregnant women, infants & children, people with heart & respiratory struggles, those suffering depression or chronic headaches and all people of vulnerable health should be alerted as soon as the gas begins to concentrate, around 10 PPM (parts per million) or lower.
You most likely need a low level carbon monoxide detector to sound off when carbon monoxide hazards are just beginning, not after you’ve been exposed to levels that make you have headaches, flu-like symptoms, increased tiredness, heart stresses or worse.
Do not take risks with carbon monoxide. Take responsibility for the air you breathe and the combustion systems you are responsible for. If you don’t do it for yourself, do it for others, unless you think $45.00, high level protection is good enough.
Help prevent injuries and deaths; don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY
Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again. The degree of the poisoning depends upon allowing yourself to be in a situation where someone else controls the air you breathe and the mechanisms for alarming notification.
Please read the alarm information on the package and in the instructions that come with the carbon monoxide alarm. Know that if it is a U.L. 2034 Listed product (or CSA 6.19 Listed), it is a high level alarm that has been tested to alarm no sooner than 70 PPM at the lowest (the alarm must resist for one hour when above this level) and when over 400 PPM before 15 minutes at the highest concentration, after resisting alarming for 4 minutes when over this level.
Know when your fire department and emergency responders begin wearing their breathing apparatus and what their civilian evacuation levels are for carbon monoxide; it may be as soon as the gas is present in your presence. Pregnant women, infants & children, people with heart & respiratory struggles, those suffering depression or chronic headaches and all people of vulnerable health should be alerted as soon as the gas begins to concentrate, around 10 PPM (parts per million) or lower.
You most likely need a low level carbon monoxide detector to sound off when carbon monoxide hazards are just beginning, not after you’ve been exposed to levels that make you have headaches, flu-like symptoms, increased tiredness, heart stresses or worse.
Do not take risks with carbon monoxide. Take responsibility for the air you breathe and the combustion systems you are responsible for. If you don’t do it for yourself, do it for others, unless you think $45.00, high level protection is good enough.
Help prevent injuries and deaths; don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY
Measurement is continuing education at its best. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Breath tests for mothers to warn of smoking risk to unborn babies
Evening Standard
Figures show that maternal smoking is to blame for more than 2,000 premature births and 5,000 miscarriages every year in the UK… The aim of breath checks is also to detect the hidden harms of second-hand smoke and traffic pollution on unborn children…
Extreme heat, poor air quality this weekend
InMaricopa.com
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality in Phoenix issued an ozone high pollution advisory for the Greater Phoenix area… Ozone is an air contaminant. High levels of ozone can cause breathing issues for children and adults with respiratory conditions. The NWS recommends a decrease in physical activities while the air quality alert is in effect…
India's Deadly Heat Wave Could Be a Glimpse of Things to Come
VICE News
Scientists say that warming is being driven by carbon dioxide and other emissions from the burning of fossil fuels like coal. At current levels of emissions, the expected warming is likely to be closer to 4 C (7.2 F)… That leaves India in a touchy spot as it tries to extend the benefits of an electrified society—like air conditioning, for instance —to all 1.2 billion of its people…
What Humanity's Impact on Earth Will Look Like to Future Geologists
The New Republic
“new age of humans.” This shift is meant to signify the outsized role one species—our species, Homo sapiens, “wise man”—has begun to play on the planet. We move three times more earth and stone than all the world's rivers, even building our own islands. We have created new types of rocks, like the plastiglomerate formed from lava and discarded six-pack rings in Hawaii. We’ve even changed the chemistry of the atmosphere, raising global concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by 0.01 percent… That doesn't sound like much, but it’s enough to touch levels never before breathed by our species since our distant ancestors evolved some 200,000 years ago. And it’s also enough to raise global average temperatures by nearly a degree Celsius to date—a number that’s steadily rising…
Johnson County Contractor Licensing Conference
CO EXperts
Johnson County Kansas - Continuing Education – – Video Link
About Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
DailyMotion
About Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Who is responsible for the air you breathe?
The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:
- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours
Please read the alarm information on the package and in the instructions. Know when your fire department and emergency responders begin wearing their breathing apparatus and what their civilian evacuation levels are for carbon monoxide; it may be before 70 PPM. It is for pregnant women, infants & children, the elderly and all people of vulnerable health. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Consider low level protection for carbon monoxide and smoldering fire detection problems; don't leave anyone behind.
These following links may be of some use to you:
- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours
Please read the alarm information on the package and in the instructions. Know when your fire department and emergency responders begin wearing their breathing apparatus and what their civilian evacuation levels are for carbon monoxide; it may be before 70 PPM. It is for pregnant women, infants & children, the elderly and all people of vulnerable health. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Consider low level protection for carbon monoxide and smoldering fire detection problems; don't leave anyone behind.
These following links may be of some use to you:
-Alcoa Eagle Nest Camera
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Animal cameras - variety of locations
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Animal cameras - variety of locations
- Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive
- Current Data for Atmospheric CO2
- Federal Aviation Administration CO warning
- Carbon monoxide toxicity-Emergency Medicine Ireland
- Carbon Monoxide Survivor- Views from those who have been poisoned.
- Carbon Monoxide detection- National Fire Protection Association
Increased education, awareness can prevent carbon monoxide poisoning Minnesota Department of Commerce
· Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-Nine U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2014
Alaska | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Florida |
Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan |
Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York |
North Carolina | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island |Tennessee
Texas | Utah |Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin |
West Virginia
Texas | Utah |Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin |
West Virginia
Red Cross - Disaster Relief to safely assist law enforcement, fire department, utility company, city, county and state authorities as repair and rebuilding moves forward. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Nationally, the Red Cross provides food and shelter to people affected by as many as 70,000 fires annually, or about one fire every eight minutes.
The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece Instruments
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
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