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Anyone else bothered by the sudden change in scale in the last image? It's way zoomed in compared to the first 3.
Looks similar to this 
https://www.airparif.fr/sites/default/files/document_publication/Bilan_QA_75_2023_1.pdf
I don't love it either but the scale does look the same across the four.
If you look at the vein(?) on the north side of the loop, there's a part that goes straight north and then east, with a break in the north leg. Makes it a lot more clear that it was zoomed in.
Two different scales at play. The geographic scale clearly changes in the last image, but thankfully the measurement scale (as indicated by the color bar below each picture) stays constant, which would be much more egregious in terms of making the image misleading if it did not.
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Car lovers: but my emissions :'(
I wonder whether they have noise pollution meters. that would be interesting to see the difference.
Edit: there is! https://carto.bruitparif.fr/ But only until 2022?
2017
2022
2022 was much quieter, but that was also during COVID. I wish they had something for 2023 and 2024
Fuck cars.
Car lover here. Fortunately we have things like DEF injection nowdays to keep NOx emissions down while still enjoying our cars! It is however unfortunate that many people remove those systems because of perceived unreliability.
Still, soon as I can afford it, I'll be moving to electric myself. Electric cars do cause more noise at any real speed though, as tire noise overtakes engine noise at 30-40 km/h in my experience, and EVs are a fair bit heavier. But the grid is a lot cleaner nowadays than burning diesel fuel.
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80% of the noise over 75dB in a French city is two stroke petrol scooters going "baaaaaaababababbaaaaaaa" at 3 in the morning.
Ugh those need to be banned and replaced with electric scooters. Some place in Asia did that and the air quality went up dramatically.
My eyes are burned into my head due to someone using a pie chart on these data...
In a world that is burning it is refreshing to see things like this!
The burning is still happening. Just not inside Paris
Most NOx emissions come from diesels. A decent chunk of that original pollution probably came from cheating Volkswagens.
BTW, everyone making diesel cars cheated. It was just that VW's cheating was exposed first.
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