Pollution from Sahara

Probably.

Hi All,
Well I can’t see what all the fuss is about it’s been clear up here in Warwickshire and Snafu, isn’t the difference between the sand and ash the fact that the ash clogs up and then hardens like cement while at the same time being highly abrasive, where as the sand although highly abrasive will normally just pass through the engine ? Answers on a post to Key Aviation Forum :highly_amused:

Geoff.

…saying that its this country to blame for all the pollution and sand, so lets raise taxes more to sort the problem out! An extra 20 quid on road tax and council tax that should do nicely….

Hmm, don’t remember that happening the last time this happened, nor when Eyjafjallajökull erupted in 2010.

I have been let out of my padded room for the day!

Ah, that explains it.

I guess the greenies are going to jump on the band wagon again, saying that its this country to blame for all the pollution and sand, so lets raise taxes more to sort the problem out! An extra 20 quid on road tax and council tax that should do nicely. Thank You!

That’s about the size of it. 🙂

I guess the greenies are going to jump on the band wagon again, saying that its this country to blame for all the pollution and sand, so lets raise taxes more to sort the problem out! An extra 20 quid on road tax and council tax that should do nicely. Thank You!

Then I can stand outside during the next time this happens shouting “but I have paid my greenie tax go away pollution!”

I have been let out of my padded room for the day!

I never use these foreign bods to wash my car as the chemicals they use are far to harsh and can damage your paint.

Do they bring their own national cleaning products with them, or might it just be that the nationality of the cleaners is irrelevant since they always use the cheapest stuff available?

It was inevitable really. I spent nine hours washing,waxing and detailing my car last Thursday. I even bought a new pack of wooden cocktail sticks to get the dried on wax and crud out between the rubber and the bodywork. The car is metallic dark bluegreen in colour and looks like its been splattered with Brown Windsor Soup now! I never use these foreign bods to wash my car as the chemicals they use are far to harsh and can damage your paint.

I notice Greenpeace got in on the act, prophesying doom and destruction unless we all ditch the cars, take to public transport, bike or walk.

I am as aware as anyone that vehicles chuck pollutants into the air, but in these prevailing weather conditions it isn’t even entirely our pollution.

Do you mean a geiger counter, maybe?

Yeh, something like that.

The car was covered in a brown sludge at the weekend –

I hate to tell you mate, but that’s rust :stupid:

Do you mean a geiger counter, maybe?

Pardon my ageing memory, but did not the French test their early nuclear devices in the remote Sahara…….anybody got one of those Giggler counting thingy’s I can borrow to check my car?

We periodically get Saharan sand/dust and we frequently get increased levels of pollution for a day or a few days, so why all the excitement this time, I have no idea. Slow newsdays, perhaps……:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Not important …..unless you have a lung condition.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-26863228

I just hope that it complies with the European Sand Dimensions and Granularity Directive EU798/13/240/112/89370/SAND/1138

And what’s worse is, it’s not all EU sand!!

Let me get this straight. Even the sand wants to migrate here…?

Bloody foreign sand, coming over here, dirtying our cars and making jobs for the Romanian car washers…!

I’m waiting for the plague of locusts

Try the Palace of Westminster.
Apparently, this time, the Saharan pollution is intermingled with European pollution which is all being blown here by easterlies; the European court is threatening to fine this country because of its high levels of pollution. I wonder if anyone else can detect any irony in that.

:highly_amused:

I’m waiting for the plague of locusts 🙂

Alan – nope it’s just the weather which changes unpredictably as it has done for a very long time!;)