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smog Choking smog all but shut down one of northeastern China's largest cities on Monday, forcing schools to suspended classes, snarling traffic and closing the airport, in the country's first major air pollution crisis of the winter. An index measuring PM2.5, or particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5), reached a reading of 1,000 in some parts of Harbin, the gritty capital of northeastern Heilongjiang province and home to some 11 million people. A level above 300 is considered hazardous, while the World Health Organisation recommends a daily level of no more than 20. 
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10/21/2013 10:54 am |
If the PM2.5 is 1000 I can only imagine how bad the SO2, NO2, O3 pollution levels are. My god they are killing themselves no so slowly. This really sounds like the USA in the late 60's. Being born in the rust belt of the USA I remember driving through major cities and having to roll up our windows because the pollution was so intense. Then along came Rachel Carson and "Silent Spring" and the environmental consciousness of the US was awoken. From that awareness came the USEPA and a host of environmental regulations that are being complained about in USA now by businesses. It's amazing the short memory we can have as a species.
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in the 70's in Los Angeles, there use to be a brown haze over the city and it would burn your eyes. I had a convertible and one day I was coming down La Cienega Blvd, headed toward LA, I saw that haze (I'd seen it many times before), but that day it just struck me how much of this stuff I was breathing in, after than I never let the top down unless it was a very clear day, or out was out of the LA Basin. Amazingly, by the late 80's and 90's they got it cleared up tremendously. Smog testing cars helped to get a lot of those polluting cars off the street, by that time many of the old industries has closed of left the state. You will get a ticket for car polluting in LA... they do not tolerate smoking cars on the streets and highways.
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wish I could see it. 
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