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hankwang writes:
"For the past couple of days, China's capital has been suffering under severe smog, leaving the sun and skyscrapers barely visible. The highest concentration of small airborne particles (PM2.5) was 0.50 mg per cubic meter, a factor 20 above the Word Health Organization's safe limit. Scientists went as far as comparing this to a nuclear winter. The worst seems to be over for now: today, the monitors are reading 0.180 mg/m3, only a factor 7 above the WHO limit.
The Chinese smog seems to behave differently from the smog in Europe and the US. Existing scientific models developed in the West do not work well. To improve the models and understanding, plans are underway to build a 600 cubic-meter (that's 21,000 cubic ft or 160,000 US gallon) transparent dome as a smog chamber."
[NOTE TO EDITOR: I can't get slashcode to display the mu symbol, so I converted to milligrams] [Ed's Note: Thankyou - but what is it in firkins?]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @03:32PM
we quickly take every Republican politician "killing people forced to live like this
So your proposed solution is to kill more people but do not like the idea of others saying maybe the EPA went too far? Nice. But at least they dont think like you and only your friends and family are supper cool and not like that at all so deserve to live.
You are approaching people wrong if you want them to think like you. If you want them to think like you you need to not be 'my way or stfu'. You need them to think it is *their* idea.
They're a bunch of wankers anyway and their health insurance protects them in ways they tried hard to make sure the Affordable Care package
My insurance has gone from 3k to nearly 12k in 2 years. With no major medical bills in that time. Affordable my ass...
The country has spoken on what they think of ACA. About 4 million signed up for it. Of that 4 million 3.8 were up for medicaid/medicare renewal and got the same coverage. We have had a net add of about 200k people. We have upsidedowned our entire healthcare system for what will be about a half of 1 percent of our population. Instead of real solutions like real free healthcare. We have people with 3x the bill they had. We on average pay 10x what the rest of the world does and have comparable health care. Why do you think that is? I will give you a hint. Its called supply and demand.
shortsighted peckerwoods
Look in the mirror young man. You have not seen anything yet with respect to healthcare in the united states. My father went from selling affordable insurance in the 90s to little old ladies to selling nothing in the 2000s. As they could no longer afford it (20-35 a month for 70 year olds with cancer to 400 a month). That is what Hillarycare wrought upon our healthcare landscape. We just doubled down on it.
ACA is nothing more than an insurance mandate. It does not give you free health coverage. You will pay for it. Look up what medicaid is. It is a loan program. Not a free healthcare program. It is the insurer of last resort. That worked out well for the home mortgage bubble didnt it?