Dave Peterson (He/Him) Ⓥ 🇨🇦

YES!

7NEWS Melbourne clip of air-quality concerns and impacts related to and caused by the opening of the West Gate Tunnel (west of Melbourne's CBD):

Nine News Melbourne clip of air-quality concerns and impacts related to and caused by the opening of the West Gate Tunnel (west of Melbourne's CBD):

ABC News VIC clip of air-quality concerns and impacts related to and caused by the opening of the West Gate Tunnel (west of Melbourne's CBD):

Spectroscopy: The Next Step for Low-Cost Particulate Matter Sensors The landscape of ambient air quality monitoring is evolving, driven by the increasing availability of low-cost sensors. While current low-cost particulate matter (PM) sensors, which rely on light s…

seetheair.org/2025/11/11/s...

Congratulations President Connolly! 🍀

Comhghairdeas leat, a Uachtarán Connolly! 🍀

It's not every day that you see "clean" in "clean fuels" delineated by quotation marks!

Interesting!

us-east-1.storage.xata.sh/m70jvtm4hb52...

Sign our Petition to Protect Children’s Lungs: Implement World Health Organisation Air Quality Standards in the UK 🫁 Support our call for urgent clean air action Toxic air isn’t just an environmental issue — it’s a health emergency. It contributes to lung cancer, worsens asthma and COPD, and harms children’s deve...

action.asthmaandlung.org.uk/page/171493/...

https://x.com/plainAZtruth/status/1987278939321241941

POP QUIZ!

Spot the logic error here:

Absolutely awful 😞 AND preventable 😠

Thanks to the amazing folks at the @breathe-project.bsky.social for these images and for sharing the story underpinning them.

Clean air is not a privilege or plea — it is the first vaccine every child deserves What began at India Gate without an organiser may yet become something larger — a movement grounded in love, guided by evidence, and fuelled by courage. When parents stand for the air their children b...

indianexpress.com/article/opin...

The VFA has launched a citizen's database on PLANNED BURNS: to lift the lid on destructive fire management conducted by FFMV. 🔥

See something? Report. Help us collect evidence on the blatant mismanagement of fire in our forests.

www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/citizen_reports_planned_burns

"Is it really necessary to force Cranbrook and Kimberley residents to sit under a toxic, cancerous, mushroom cloud to allow basic forestry to take place? Of course not! And isn’t it time the public demanded an end to such dangerous practices?

I certainly think so."

www.e-know.ca/regions/cran...

Compassion, grace, gratitude, and humility - an example for all of us to follow 🍀 (via @rteone.rte.ie )

Public knowledge of air pollution sources and its health effects: a 2025 cross-sectional survey on a representative sample of adults in Poland - BMC Public Health Background Air pollution is well-established modifiable risk factor contributing to both non-communicable and communicable diseases worldwide and is responsible for over 6 million additional deaths ea...

bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Air Pollution Forecasting Using Autoencoders: A Classification-Based Prediction of NO2, PM10, and SO2 Concentrations

www.mdpi.com/2504-3129/6/...

Setting new standards in electric tractor driveline technology: ZF eTERRADRIVE ZF presents eTERRADRIVE, a fully electric driveline solution for tractors up to 100 kW Traction, PTOs, and rear lift are fully integrated electrically for the first time Modular design allows inte...

NICE!

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IF ONE MAN CAN DESTROY EVERYTHING. WHY CANT ONE GIRL CHANGEIT?

America, you need help!

YouTube video by Oizom What are the Environmental Impacts of PM1?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikNq...

Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites

UGH!

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Some good/hopeful news:

My new family physician understood and agreed with me when, after asking about my smoking history, I told them "I have never smoked cigarettes, but in a way I have actually smoked because of wood smoke and engine exhaust exposure".

Progress... perhaps?

Exposure to household air pollution in relation to stomach and esophageal cancer in Xuanwei, China Household air pollution (HAP) is a global health burden affecting about half of the world’s population. In Xuanwei, China, individuals experience high…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Frontiers | The smog of exercise: the causal effect of air pollution on fitness behaviors With the rapid development of industrialization and urbanization in China, air pollution has become an increasingly serious problem, and people are increasin...

www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...

https://www.instagram.com/cavsbigoil/p/DQpgwJID-MI/

There it is.

The key phrase.

"Once Voters Learn".

Imagine how much more action we would have taken (and be taking) if they had been told the truth IN THE FIRST PLACE about air and climate pollution.

It's never too late to tell the truth, but... alas...

NM Climate Justice (@nmclimatejustice) on Threads Breaking: Friday, October 31st massive explosion at Sinclair Navajo oil refinery in Artesia, New Mexico. Workers have been injured.. information is still coming out. Pollution is wafting over neighb...

Why didn't I hear about this until just now?

www.threads.com/@nmclimateju...

Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’ Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated

www.theguardian.com/business/202...