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Watching China Turn Off the Pollution
NewbieV points out coverage of the effort to assess Beijing's air pollution control efforts. Quote from one of the investigators: "This will be a very interesting experiment that can never happen again." Here's the main project scientist's site on the monitoring effort, and Newsweek coverage that brings out a paradoxical effect of reducing pollution on global warming. "Unmanned aerial vehicles are measuring emissions of soot and other forms of black carbon. The instruments are observing pollution transport patterns as Beijing enacts its 'great shutdown' for the Summer Olympic Games. Chinese officials have compelled reductions in industrial activity by as much as 30 percent and cuts in automobile use by half to safeguard the health of competing athletes immediately before and during the games."
Hey, I have an idea: let's develop a series of competitive events dedicated to showing off the pinnacles of raw physical endurance and human health...
...and then host it in one of the world's most polluted cities!
Don't worry...it isn't real. It is some kind of CGI 'mist'. They wipe it clean electronically for the games.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
PSI levels above 400 may be life-threatening to ill and elderly persons. Healthy people may experience adverse symptoms that affect normal activity.
I wonder what they would write about levels above 550!
The air quality in Beijing is little better than being on the outskirts of a forest fire.
The better questions is, what happens when it's over 9000
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
Well, despite the DBZ reference. You do just kind of die.
...they're speaking German.
Well, despite the DBZ reference. You do just kind of die.
And, because of the DBZ reference, he'd deserve it...