‘Only seven countries meet WHO air quality standard, research finds’….plus Scotland

According to the Guardian today, Scotland is not a country and by implication falls with the UK into the failed group.

The latest WHO level for the deadly PM2.5 particles is 5 micrograms per cubic metre.

Though no Scottish average seems available, you can, I find, go to the IQAir site and find the level of PM2.5 where you live.

How about Glasgow High Street? 3.1, well under the WHO level.

https://www.iqair.com/gb/uk/scotland/glasgow/glasgow-high-street

To my surprise the partly-pedestrianised Ayr High Street – 5.7, just over.

Aberdeen Anderson Drive – 4.5

Edinburgh Tower Street – 1.5!

Busy Queensferry Road – 1.9

Bainsford Falkirk – 2.1.

I can’t find anywhere worse than my local High Street!

So, the Scottish average looks likely to be well within WHO limits.

Greenwich London – 13

Kingston upon Thames – sounds lovely – 15! Gasp.

At that, I’ll leave you to play with the app for your own places of interest, Breathe easy…I hope.

2 thoughts on “‘Only seven countries meet WHO air quality standard, research finds’….plus Scotland

  1. Cue Glasgow Times latching on to the Uk figures and headlining that the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) for central Glasgow is a ‘total failure’ with a quote from a local garage owner ‘SLAMMING” the LEZ.

    Alasdair Macdonald

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  2. Canary Wharf = 30, which probably explains why levelling up funds have gone there en masse;

    City of Westminster = 29, which, like many of those who work there, can cause a myriad of health problems and deaths.

    It’s a shame there’s no recording for my tiny Moray Firth harbour town – but perhaps they just don’t include zero readings…

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