#SGHaze
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Today is 17th June 2013 (Monday) - cannot stand the air quality arh!
forest fire - indonesia gahmen you guys doing anything? satellite can easily tell where the fires are. you guys sent your army and fire department to sprray water there not not?!
my throat getting sora even when i stayed indoors. see doctor medical bills you indonesia gahmen wanna pay for it?
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The haze really seriously bad...
The air stinks -___-
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every year this time like that yet they still never wanna do anything to it.
what type of neighours country is this? they should all year round chopp up some of the trees at those hot spots. when you break the forest contibuity at intevals, at least if got fire they wont spread unchecked when the tree lines breaks.
like that also open one timber market for your country to sell thise waste diood of recycle them.
every year like that expect malaysia and singapore ppl to breath your irrespoinsible burnt stinking air!?
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worse is traps heat
make the hot weather even blardy hotter
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Hot season is one thing, but Indon still have illegal burning of forest to clear land...
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HAZE UPDATE: PSI reading hits a high of 100 at 2pm, air quality at "unhealthy" level.
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The NASA Clean Air Study has been led by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in association with the Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA). Its results suggest that certain common indoor plants may provide a natural way of removing toxic agents such as benzene, formaldehyde and trichloroethylene from the air, helping neutralize the effects of sick building syndrome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_air-filtering_plants
Most of the plants on the list evolved in tropical or subtropical environments. Due to their ability to flourish on reduced sunlight, their leaf composition allows them to photosynthesize well in household light.
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Houseplants are the latest word in household cleaning.
Research now shows that houseplants play an important role in cleaning the air we breath, both indoors and out.
Plants produce their own food through a process called photosynthesis. This means they take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and release oxygen. Photosynthesis "cleans" our air by absorbing carbon dioxide and by taking in certain other pollutants, as well.
A team of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) researchers lead by Dr. Bill Wolverton tested the effect of fifteen house plants on three pollutants known to be present in spacecrafts. These same three pollutants--benzene, formaldehyde and trichloroethylene--are present in homes and office buildings. They occur because they are emitted from furnishings, office equipment and some building materials.
Under controlled conditions, in the NASA study, certain houseplants were found to remove as much as 87 percent of indoor air pollutants within 24 hours.
Until recently, indoor air pollution was not considered a health threat; most homes and public buildings leaked so much that air often was replaced every couple of hours. But during the 1970's, after energy shortages occurred, more and more of us began to insulate our houses and office buildings to conserve energy and lower heating and cooling costs. As a result, indoor air might linger for five hours or more allowing pollutants to accumulate.
Researchers are just beginning to understand how indoor pollutants such as cigarette smoke, for example, can harm humans. Effects range from skin and eye irritations to headaches and allergies. Some of the pollutants may be carcinogenic. According to the NASA study, the plants listed below proved effective in removing certain indoor air pollutants.
The NASA researchers suggest that for the test plants to be effective "air cleaners" it is necessary to use 1 potted plant per 100 square feet of home or office space. Indeed, it would appear that plants have many useful qualities, including one of making our indoor air cleaner to breath.*
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111 liao
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What is happening?
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killing the mossies
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Scary.
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It's not only killing the mossies, it's killing us too~~~
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tmr please declare holiday nabehz
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152 as of 9pm
above wat lumber then declare state of emergency ah?
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declare state of emergency for what?
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stay home and sleep lah for what
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nw PSI 155 lia0
and hope it rain .... -
Aiyoh state of emergency stalin will it as an excuse to purge me.
-Kulak on the run from Gulag camps
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if having respiratory plms due to the haze can get some 桑� fr tcm shop to make tea.
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Originally posted by jlowbog:
if having respiratory plms due to the haze can get some 桑� fr tcm shop to make tea.
if the air condition keeps worsening, see how long how many tea you going to can drink.the root of the problme is indomn side. sg my and neighoboruing countrie shave been very patient with them for very long already. if their sumatra forest illegal activities their gahmen cannot control, please surrender the lands to My and sg and asean, we will take over the lans and clear their forest good good so thatno forest fires anymore will choke us to dead. sg pappy gahmen do not see this time how abd it will be the air now! cannot blame them, they cannot even tackle the mossie speoblem, and that vivian stilldare to jio low thia kiang go coffee shop drink coffee ovr the TC issue!
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it's not getting any better
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did they discount the PSI ?
it definitely looks worse than the lumber indicated
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Different measures of air quality
- PSI
The Pollutant Standards Index, or PSI, has been Singapore's main indicator of air quality since 1991.
It measures air pollutants such as sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, carbon monoxide and PM10, which is particulate matter 10 microns or smaller in size - about one-seventh the diameter of a strand of human hair.
The PSI has a scale of 0 to 400. A reading above 100 is unhealthy, and anything higher than 300 is hazardous.
To keep the public updated on the recent haze situation, the National Environment Agency (NEA) has been publishing hourly updates of its three-hour average PSI reading on its website.
For example, a 3pm update is averaged from readings taken at 1pm, 2pm and 3pm.
The NEA also publishes the averages of the previous 24 hours at 8am, noon and 4pm daily.
Air quality indexes similar to the PSI are used in Australia, Hong Kong and Indonesia.
- PM2.5
The PSI does not measure a smaller type of pollutant found in haze - the PM2.5, or very fine particulate matter.
These particles, about one-thirtieth the width of a human hair, are more hazardous because they can enter the lungs or bloodstream more easily than larger dust particles.
In addition to the PSI, NEA also publishes PM2.5 readings, averaged over 24 hours, of micrograms of PM2.5 per cubic metre.
Readings above 40 trigger health advisories.
The latest 24-hour reading at 4pm yesterday was 149-169.
- Other air quality indexes
There is no international consensus when it comes to air quality indexes. Unlike Singapore's PSI, official air quality indexes used by China and the United States measure PM2.5 levels in the air.
For example, Malaysia uses the Air Pollutant Index (API), which measures the same five pollutants as Singapore's PSI, but differs in the standards used to measure several of them.