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Boris Johnson leaves London breathing uneasy
2016-02-23 21:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Every so often a statistic emerges to send shockwaves through the most innumerate skulls. One such figure, highlighted by the Royal College of Physicians in a report on Tuesday, is the annual toll of 40,000 premature deaths attributable to outdoor air pollution. It implies that the finger can be pointed at unclean air for about 8% of all of the half million or so deaths recorded in the UK every year, a far higher proportion than is usually blamed on alcohol or obesity, two public health problems...
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