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."

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Haha

[electronixtar]

just comment here, see how many China haters there are on Slashdot

Re:Summary:

[repvik]

There also were some studies relating to the evaporation of water. As it turns out, evaporation rates are not only affected by such things as ambient temperature and wind, but also by photons hitting the water surface.

No shit? You're saying that light (especially the IR part of the spectrum) helps evaporate water? That can't be right...

Re:Watching China

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck the daily show.

Re:Summary:

[CKW]

>> there was an immense reduction in global dimming.
> there was a measurable change in daily max. to min. temperature differences between built up and non-built-up areas

There, fixed that for you.

Re:Watching China

[Vexorian]

American athletes suck?

I mean, really, they are athletes, their lungs are supposed to be much better than those of an average Chinese guy. Either that was just a circus from the US committee or your athletes are sissies .