China Races To Clean Up Olympic Air

Hugh Pickens writes "With the Olympics due to start in less than three weeks, Beijing is cranking up antipollution measures by yanking cars off the roads, expanding mass transit and staggering work hours in a bid to meet its pledge of a 'green' Olympics. Beijing has gone on a spending spree, relocating factories, seeding clouds, retiring old vehicles, planting millions of trees and halting building construction amid concerns that athletes and visitors could suffer breathing problems. For the next two months, owners of 3.3 million private cars can drive only on alternate days in China's capital, based on whether the last digit of their license plates is even or odd. Environmental and sports performance experts have cast doubt on the effectiveness of the measures taken so far. 'Arguably these are all short-term measures, just designed to control air quality for the time when the Olympics are on,' says Dr Andy Jones. Dr Angus Hunter warned that athletes are at risk for low performance if the air quality cannot be brought down to acceptable levels. 'Average times could be lower and the chances of records being broken become less. It's a bit like trying to exercise in a room when the gym is full of smokers.'"

Comments

Re:Non-sports stuff more interesting than the even

[Alzheimers]

The dream: that some day, China will be free enough to have their own fair and balanced Fox News station.

Now THAT's progress. Right, Papa Bear?

Re:Environmental Wackos

[Romancer]

Oooookayyyy,

"Well, maybe it wouldn't have been offensive if it had been spelled correctly. or if it hadn't been in quotes. Or if there had been anything of substance in the OP other than 'China's pullution is AWFUL'"

"Less offensive if spelled correclty", I'll just leave alone, it stands as it's own argument.

Quotes where?

and since when did someones opinion have to include intelligent substance backing up an opinion when the subject even admits that the opinion is shared to such an extent as to warrant billions of dollars spent to correct it?

Re:Just now?

[vviIIyhiII]

Fucking little chinks just know how to decorate shit for the westerners to see. The world will not survive unless we have a white majority in the world.

White Power World Wide!