Posted on 01/18/2014 8:40:17 AM PST by chessplayer
The smog has become so thick in Beijing that the city's natural light-starved masses have begun flocking to huge digital commercial television screens across the city to observe virtual sunrises.
The futuristic screens installed in the Chinese capital usually advertize tourist destinations, but as the season's first wave of extremely dangerous smog hit - residents donned air masks and left their homes to watch the only place where the sun would hail over the horizon that morning.
Commuters across Beijing found themselves cloaked in a thick, gray haze on Thursday as air pollution monitors issued a severe air warning and ordered the elderly and school children to stay indoors until the quality improved.
The air took on an acrid odor, and many of the city's commuters wore industrial strength face masks as they hurried to work.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Now that "Yule Log" on television doesn't look so cheesy after all.
People used to understand that the Chinese were inscrutable.
” ‘I couldn’t see the tall buildings across the street this morning,’ said a traffic coordinator at a busy Beijing intersection who gave only his surname, Zhang. ‘The smog has gotten worse in the last two to three years. I often cough, and my nose is always irritated. But what can you do? I drink more water to help my body discharge the toxins.’ “
And the water they drink is toxic.
“The density of PM2.5 was about 350 to 500 micrograms Thursday midmorning, though the air started to clear in the afternoon. It had reached as high as 671 at 4 a.m. at a monitoring post at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
That is about 26 times as high as the 25 micrograms considered safe by the World Health Organization,”
And all that crap drifts over to here in North America because of the atmospheric currents.
But the left, who are green crazy, are indebt to China up to their eyeballs, right?
There ability to steal manufacturing and R&D - while gaining momentum in the economic and funding sectors - will poison their nation to no end...they are sacrificing everything to gain an immediate satisfaction - it would be nice to see this slap in the face on the Communists that are allowing this - as one more example of failure from trying to gain top status by sacrificing their people!
China may be the world’s top emitter of carbon dioxide and struggling with major pollution problems of their own, but the country is “doing it right” when it comes to fighting global warming says Figueres.
I guess televising sunrise is doing it right.
I spotted three or four SUVs in that traffic jam. That’s probably the problem right there.
5.56mm
THIS sort'a reminds me of that gag photo of the raghead beauty queen competition ... all those burha's lined up ...
I’m sure Al Gore is out in front of this issue with the communist regime there to stop global warming right?...I bet he is in their face all day long telling them they are ruining the world and making it warm right?....I bet he has a plan to sell carbon credits to all those factories over there right?....
Maurice Strong is considered to be the father of Agenda21 and he lives in China.
His plan for North America included things like licensed births and forced abortion to cut the north American population to 1/3 of what it is now and then we could all live in a handful of massive sustainable cities.
Let’s deregulate so that we can compete with the Chinese on their level. /s
it’s getting colder not warmer
go outside
global warming is a hoax
The enviro movement is enamored of China and the former soviet union for some reason, always portraying them both as “far more environmentally conscious than the U.S. is.”
What a laugh.
funny how the USA and we survived for 200 years without your EPA that was created in the 1960’s
funny how the USA and we survived for 200 years without your EPA that was created in the 1960’s
and the USA was actually growing for 200 years without almost no government and no EPA .
maybe you should award Obama and the EPA director shiela jackson lee for keep your world safe/sarcasm . as if these communist dolts have anything to do with it
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