Every Breath You Take, Mark Broomfield
Every Breath You Take, Mark Broomfield
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Every Breath You Take
Exploring the Science of Our Changing Atmosphere

Author: Mark Broomfield

Narrator: Tristan Wright

Unabridged: 9 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/06/2020


Synopsis

With seven million early deaths a year linked to air pollution, air quality is headline news around the world. But even though we breathe in and out every few seconds, few of us really know what’s in the air all around us. In Every Breath You Take, air-quality specialist-and full-time breather-Dr. Mark Broomfield connects the dots from the atmosphere on distant planets to the holes in the ozone layer to the particles in our lungs. How do we measure air pollution, and what on earth is an odor panel? Why are property prices higher upwind of cities? And will our grandchildren inherit an atmosphere worth breathing? With keen insights on the atmospheric effects of climate change, industrial air pollution, and urbanization in the twenty-first century, Every Breath You Take combines the latest scientific research with Mark’s personal stories to answer these questions and many more in this surprising and easy-to-listen-to journey through the atmosphere.

About Mark Broomfield

Mark Broomfield has a Ph.D. in atmospheric chemistry and has specialized in air quality, odor, and health issues since 1992. A researcher for the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, he has also worked as an evaluator for the UK Government’s Expert Panel on Air Quality Standards. He lives in Shrewsbury, England.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jēkabs Niklāvs on September 08, 2019

I really enjoyed this book. Even though a big part of it was just a pointless ramble about problems with air pollution, I would say that everything complimented everything else and so - making this book a rather fascinating science book involving some humour, chemistry, mathematics and whole lot of......more

Goodreads review by Amy on August 13, 2022

I am sure there are people out there who would absolutely love this book. It got a little bit too much of the details for me, probably would've liked it if he would've just filled it out instead of putting in all of the scientific data I still got a lot and probably should re-read this!......more

Goodreads review by Rolande on August 16, 2020

What a great book, it does exactly what it says on the tin. I am now on the look out for diffusion tubes.......more

Goodreads review by Briar on August 10, 2019

Four out of five NOx particles to Every Breath You Take: Exploring the Science of our Changing Atmosphere by Mark Broomfield. I don’t read a huge amount of non-fiction these days because it takes a lot more energy than reading fiction, and a lot more concentration. This sounded really interesting tho......more

Goodreads review by Anett on August 30, 2019

Every Breath You Take is a highly informative book on the Earth's atmosphere and everything that humanity has been polluting it with. Chapter by chapter environmental scientist Mark Broomfield describes harmful and hazardous substances, how their levels are monitored and what steps have been taken t......more