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https://theconversation.com/harvard-study-strengthens-link-between-breast-cancer-risk-and-light-exposure-at-night-75171 It states breast cancer but the original Harvard study mentions endocrine cancers and also includes higher prostate cancer with higher levels of light pollution A study from Harvard has found greater risk of breast cancer in women who live in neighborhoods that have higher levels of outdoor light during the night. The findings are based on the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS), which has for decades been advancing our understanding of risks to women’s health. For this study, epidemiologist Peter James and colleagues followed nurses in the NHS for breast cancer occurrence from 1989 to 2013. The home of each of 109,672 nurses was geocoded, and the average light level in the immediate neighborhood at night was estimated from satellite images taken by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program. These estimates were updated over the 15-year follow-up period. By 2013, a total of 3,549 new cases of breast cancer had been diagnosed, about what’s expected among this number of women. The study found a direct relationship between a woman’s neighborhood nighttime light level before diagnosis and her later risk of developing breast cancer: The higher the light level, the higher the risk. These findings held even when taking into account many other factors that may also affect risk such as age, number of children, weight, use of hormone medications and a long list of additional potential confounders. Of importance if confirmed in more studies, the relationship was strongest in young women diagnosed before menopause. James also conducted many further subgroup analyses after the primary objective of the study had been verified; these subgroup findings may or not be seen in future studies. Two that stood out are that the association was confined to current and former smokers, and nurses with a history of night work. The study is significant because it adds a strong piece of evidence to the growing body of studies supporting the idea that excessive electric light exposure at night increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer.

it really should have stayed that way, I find the parks near Bayside absolutely gorgeous.

oh nice both light and noise pollution studies are from Harvard lol

you can post the study on light pollution and cancer too.

thats correct and light pollution too, a Harvard study proved it increases the risk of developing cancer 30-50% as much as an unhealthy diet does. It's because light pollution blocks the release of melatonin

Most people aren't interested in being packed like sardines in a subway train. It's why densely packed cities are antithetical to good environmental and health policies.

I've always wondered about that, why wasn't the subway ever extended to include all of Queens and Staten Island?

it's been mostly sunny here all day but now the clouds are coming in

I used to take the A train from Far Rockaway that was an absolutely amazing ride, going right along Jamaica Bay with the water almost coming up to the train tracks. Trains that travel in tunnels are very depressing though.

How did you do in the January 2022 snowstorm?

the question is why? it's also the city's hot spot.

I think so too, it was absolutely alarming to have thousands of people suffocate to death like that. low grade coal is even more insidious than Jack the Ripper

This was a bad time to be alive, I think London had a similar instance of air pollution, but there thousands of people died (there was some sort of inversion that caused the poisonous chemicals to remain near the ground and spread via a mysterious yellow fog.)

This was our best storm in YEARS, notice how JFK had over 6 inches of snow too we have a Central NJ kind of climate here lol

Oh that's a good point maybe air pollution from industrial smoke stacks in PA also had an influence.

Was this another PD snowstorm that doesn't get talked about much? By the way, I remembered another storm like that, I think it was in January 2022? The one that gave Brooklyn and Queens and points east a foot or more of snow. The wind mostly blew the snow away so I didn't need to shovel at all.

It looks MUCH worse than what we went through a few years ago. Are we sure it wasn't smoke from some mushroom cloud of nuclear testing going on somewhere?

Interesting news stories from 1950 lol, I take it the Korean war was ongoing?

Even 49/40 at Pittsburgh! Are we sure wildfires in Western Canada caused all this? It looks like night time in the middle of the day....

Thanks, I'd love to see some pictures from this, I wonder what the AQI would have been?

I wonder how strong it is forecast to be when it approaches land

it's been nice and sunny here today lol Not looking forward to widespread heavy flooding =\

1950 - A smoke pall from western Canada forest fires covered much of the eastern U.S. Daylight was reduced to nighttime darkness in parts of the Northeast. The color of the sun varied from pink to purple, blue, or lavendar. Yellow to grey-tan was common. (24th-30th) (The Weather Channel) wow the color of the sun sounds quite pretty, the rest sounds like a nightmare. This makes our recent bouts with Canadian wildfire seem like child's play-- what caused the wildfire smoke from over 3,000 miles away to specifically target our area? I wonder what the NYC skyline looked like at that time?

1989 - Forty-seven cities between the Rockies and the Appalachians reported record low temperatures for the date. Lows of 38 degrees at Abilene TX, 34 degrees at Jackson KY, and 36 degrees at Midland TX established records for the month of September. The low of 36 degrees at Midland smashed their previous record for the date by thirteen degrees. Fayetteville AR and Springfield MO reported their earliest freeze of record. Thunderstorms produced torrential rains in northeastern Florida. Jacksonville was deluged with 11.40 inches of rain, and flash flooding resulted in two deaths. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) I always wondered what caused 1989-1990 to be as extreme as it was, from extreme cold and widespread severe weather and Thanksgiving snow and December arctic cold to record warmth January thru March. What I remember the most though is how early all the fall foliage dropped from the trees thanks to the early extreme cold and very windy weather. ALL the leaves were off the trees here before Halloween! That has not happened before nor since. EWR: 92 (2017) NYC: 91 (2017) LGA: 91 (2017) JFK 92 (2017) Clean sweep for 2017 and everyone was within one degree of each other, that must be VERY rare (I wonder if there's ever been an instance of the same record high temperature at all 4 locations at the same time?)

I don't get it, lol. I save so much text on my hard drives, they should easily be able to store everything going all the way back to 1869 when records began. It's like that silly video limit on here.