Beijing, wear a gas mask if going to visit.

[Penelope]

(Bloomberg) -- Beijing has suspended schools, restricted car travel and banned fireworks and outdoor barbecuing as the Chinese capital copes with a thick blanket of gray smog that’s enveloped the city and is expected to remain in place for much of the week.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...cars-on-pollution-alert/ar-AAg8oLQ?li=BBnbcA1

Most do wear a mask in the city , pictures on TV show it all the time. Can you even imagine living in this smog? It would be like living in a prison, do not go outside.

 

[The Great Goose]

The culture is prisonlike to , I'll bet.

 

[waltky]

China spyin' on polluters...

China uses surveillance to fight polluters
Mon, Dec 14, 2015 - In the future, China is to shut down a factory before it even pollutes — or so it hopes, as it deploys big data in the fight against bad air.

In Beijing’s environmental bureau, a team of engineers tends to giant mainframe computers that keep a watchful eye on the city’s pollution. Using everything from factories’ infrared profiles to social media posts, the machines can call up three-day pollution forecasts with resolution of up to 1km2and detect trends up to 10 days out. The computer program, developed by IBM, is one of several high-tech measures, ranging from drones and satellites to remote sensors, which China is deploying to deal with its chronic pollution. It seeks to solve an incongruous reality: In a country where security cameras are ubiquitous and Communist authorities operate a vast public surveillance system, accurate information about pollution remains scarce — even to officials.

Women wear masks to protect themselves from pollution in Beijing yesterday.​

As a result, Beijing and its neighboring provinces “can’t coordinate joint defense and joint control” of their anti-smog efforts, leaving rogue companies to “secretly discharge and secretly dump,” said Chen Long (陳龍), chief executive officer of Encanwell, which develops air quality monitoring and early warning systems. The company is trying to achieve total pollution awareness: the ability to know, with perfect accuracy, where haze comes from and use that information to predict and preempt its future sources. China has found itself in a double bind in the face of a relentless assault from bad air that put the capital on its first-ever air quality red alert this month.

Ahead of the 2008 Olympics, China closed factories across the region, halting construction and pulling half of all private cars off the roads. It was an effective strategy, but came at an estimated cost in the hundreds of millions of US dollars. Ensuring blue skies for major events, such as last year’s APEC summit, the World Championships in Athletics in August and a World War II anniversary parade, required a similar brute force approach that inflicted collateral damage on the economy in the country, where growth is slowing. Failure to act, on the other hand, runs the risk of inflaming public discontent — a perpetual source of concern for the government, part of whose claim to legitimacy rests on maintaining an image of supreme competence.

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[Political Junky]

(Bloomberg) -- Beijing has suspended schools, restricted car travel and banned fireworks and outdoor barbecuing as the Chinese capital copes with a thick blanket of gray smog that’s enveloped the city and is expected to remain in place for much of the week.

Beijing Suspends Schools, Restricts Cars on Pollution Alert

Most do wear a mask in the city , pictures on TV show it all the time. Can you even imagine living in this smog? It would be like living in a prison, do not go outside.

But many will still deny it's manmade.

 

[Muhammed]

An even more will say that smog is caused by man-made CO2 emissions. They're idiots.

 

[gallantwarrior]

So, how's it feel, having exported American manufacturing jobs to China?

 

[Penelope]

So, how's it feel, having exported American manufacturing jobs to China?

Its a sign for the times, get use to it. We don't need the smog here, but as a "a developed nation", I do believe we have the highest emissions as of yet . These companies best find better ways to get energy than coal. When you don't have clean water to drink , remember this. Our land and water is as polluted as that air.

 

[gallantwarrior]

So, how's it feel, having exported American manufacturing jobs to China?

Its a sign for the times, get use to it. We don't need the smog here, but as a "a developed nation", I do believe we have the highest emissions as of yet . These companies best find better ways to get energy than coal. When you don't have clean water to drink , remember this. Our land and water is as polluted as that air.

You truly believe that, don't you? What flavor KoolAid are you drinking this week?

 

[Gracie]

Who would want to go there to begin with? Certainly not I. Never did find it a place I would want to visit. Scotland, Ireland, Bavaria, tropical islands, yes. Bejing? Hayell no.

 

[Roudy]

Well, you can always put on your mask and surf the Ali Baba, looking for "disposable smog masks for daily life"....

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