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posted by janrinok on Monday March 03 2014, @03:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the if-you-could-see-me-now dept.

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?]

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday March 03 2014, @03:32AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday March 03 2014, @03:32AM (#9888) Homepage

    That's why America should look to China as a positive example -- because China proves that you too can have big government without all those annoying environmental regulations.

    But seriously, China would have been a perfect public service announcement back in the '90s when Bill Clinton was trying to save the gay whales and propaganda cartoons with heavy-handed anti-pollution messages such as Widget, [wikipedia.org] Bucky O' Hare, [youtube.com] and Toxic Crusaders. [wikipedia.org]

    The toxic crusaders were based on the movie The Toxic Avenger, and the cartoon itself was one of the greatest trolls because the elementary-age kids watching it did not have the internet, so they couldn't look up the movie on which is was actually based and see sequences such as this [youtube.com] and this. [youtube.com] Both not suitable for work!

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