I have been following this story, since Rachel Maddow brought it to the forefront in her TV show on MNSBC.
Rachel even visited Flint, MI, and organized a town hall meeting.
She’s interviewed the major of Flint (several times, in person and on TV), the people living there and the volunteers who have been helping.
However, I was getting frustrated about this because, due to the political circus created by the current race for the 2016 presidency, it seemed as if this very important topic had been forgotten.
Leave it to John Oliver, a Brit, to point the spotlight back on the “lead poisoning” situation, pointing out that this isn’t anything new.
This is a national problem … and one which needs immediate attention.
Take a moment to listen to John …. it’s worth your time.
John Oliver Blasts GOP Over Lead Poisoning American Children
The host of HBO’s ‘Last Week Tonight’ took aim at Republican lawmakers for continually trying to defund lead regulation – which is causing irreparable damage to America’s kids.
“We’ve heard a lot about lead over the past year due to the horrific events in Flint, Michigan,” said John Oliver, leading off his main segment on Last Week Tonight.
Indeed, the crisis in Flint has been declared a federal emergency, with experts claiming that roughly 8,000 to 9,000 kids under age 6 may have suffered permanent brain damage after they were exposed to high levels of lead in the city’s water.
Oliver then threw to clips of Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), the Oversight & Government Reform Committee chair, decrying the lack of action in Flint in Congress.
Unfortunately, America’s lead problem isn’t limited to Flint.
A recent USA Today Network report found lead contamination in close to 2,000 additional water systems across all 50 states. There are 7.3 million lead service lines in the U.S., but water isn’t even our biggest threat of lead poisoning—rather, it’s ingesting lead paint dust. According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), there are an estimated 2,144,000 homes with a lead dust hazard affecting children under 6, and the CDC further estimates that 535,000 children between ages 1-5 have elevated lead levels in their blood. Since a child can be poisoned to death by only 10 mg of pure lead, ingesting small amounts is highly dangerous.
“There is no safe level of lead. It’s one of those things so dangerous you shouldn’t even let a little bit of it inside you—much like heroin…or Jeremy Piven,” joked Oliver, before getting serious: “Even low-level exposure can lead to irreversible damage, like lower IQs, antisocial behavior, and reduced attention span.”
Oliver then threw to a lead prevention video produced by Sesame Street way back in 1996—a program that then aired on PBS, a government-funded network Senate Republicans tried to defund in 2011—which attempted to communicate the dangers of lead exposure.
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“Concerned?” Oliver continued. “That’s what makes it so frustrating that last year, all of those men voted for a bill that would have reduced the already low funding for HUD-led abatement programs by $35 million, amounting to a 32 percent cut. And the truth is, if you cut funding like that, a whole lot more children might get poisoned.”
Thankfully, said Oliver, those cuts didn’t go through—but the funding stayed flat. Also, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have had major funding problems in recent years as well, with some Republican lawmakers—including presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Donald Trump—desiring to wipe out the EPA altogether.
Cut to an incensed Oliver: “I thought poisoned children was something we were all justifiably outraged by?”
A Climatologia geográfica é uma área da geografia que tem por objetivo estudar os impactos dos elementos climáticos sobre a população.
Assim como as ciências meteorológicas (meteorologia), a climatologia geográfica dá atenção à gênese dos fenômenos meteorológicos, mas procura focalizar mais no estudo das repercussões e correlações espaciais (na relação entre os processos atmosféricos e a dinâmica do espaço). Assim, a dinâmica das circulação atmosférica é entendida não somente a partir das análises de escala sinótica (de dimensão típica 1000 km) até as escalas regional, local e microescala.
I’ll try my best to translate …. not fully guaranteed but makes sense.
Climatologia Geografica is an area of geography whose objective is to study the impact of climate elements on the population.
Just as metereological sciences, climatologic geography tries to find how the genesis of meteorological phenomenon yet tries to focus on studies about the repercussion and space correlations (the relationship between these atmospheric processes and space dynamics.
At the same time, the atmospheric dynamics is understood only through the analysis of the synoptic scale as well as regional, local and micro-scale.
I found this video which attempts to depict in about two minutes, the history of our world. I found it fascinating.
~~December 22, 2016~~ 
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