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Posted on 07/06/2008 5:35:04 AM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
Pollution around the Olympic stadium in Beijing could be five times worse than levels deemed safe by the World Health Organisation.
Chinese officials admit they can no longer guarantee that the air quality will match international standards as pollution tests by The Sunday Times revealed the full extent of the challenge facing British athletes......
......Even the Chinese government’s official air pollution index — which monitors a range of pollutants, including carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide — is running at double the level recommended by the WHO.
Du Shaozhong, deputy director of Beijing’s Environmental Protection Bureau, said: “We made a commitment to ensure air quality for the Olympic Games . . . as for whether we have reached the goal, that will be examined after the event.”......
......Last week The Sunday Times used an industrial hand-held air monitor to measure the number of particles in the atmosphere, which include car emissions and coal dust from factories. The particles are considered the biggest polluting factor.
The average reading at the stadium was 780,000 particles per litre of air. Even factoring in a 25% margin of error for humidity levels exaggerating the readings, this is more than five times the amount deemed safe by the WHO. The organisation considers 105,000 particles per litre of air a health risk.
Average readings at Tiananmen Square were lower — but still four times worse than the WHO standards when factoring in the humidity.......
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
That city is a hole. I’ve never been to a more polluted place. You can’t even see the sun on some “clear” days and buildings a few hundred feet away just vanish into the filthy haze. Add to that an incredible amount of ugly concrete buildings, huge pushy crowds, and chaotic lawless roads and It is a nasty place. A handful of ancient wonders can’t save that from being my least favorite city in the world.
It was a terrible place to give the Olympics to.
None of these people should be complaining. After all China has met all their emissions targets under the Kyoto Agreement.
I was there when the Olympic Committee was pre qualifying the site they shut ALL Factories Belching Smoke two weeks prior to their Visit and The Limited Cars the week of the Visit... Voila No Traffic and Smog.. a Miracle!! Except the Gobi desert is Going to blow in the Samnd and veryone will have achest Cold unless the Spray the desert with Rhino Snot or Dirt Glue... like we do here!
This will be one of the biggest stories of the Olympics. It is much too polluted for healthy people.
I can only imagine what stories we'll hear following the return of athletes from China. Suffice to say that China will completely shut down local news of health related disasters. However it's unlikely they'll have the influence necessary to quell the tide of stories reporting the health of citizens who visit and return home sick.
This is going to be a public relations disaster for China no matter what.
In terms the Chinese will understand, we are talking HUGE LOSS OF FACE at a GLOBAL SCALE...
Yeah, I can see the marathon runners having to claw their way through this smog...
For the 1st time the Marathon will be run with everyone wearing an Aqualung. Though that just may have a slight effect on the times. So I doubt that any records will be broken.
so when do you go? opening ceremonies or later?
I always thought that Jethro Tull should have a theme song for a major sporting event. Never expected it to be an Olympics, though.
The place is more polluted than Mexico City?
That photo does look scary for sure
China getting the Olympics,is disgusting too
Aren’t the Chinese planning a massive cloud seeding operation beginning a few days prior to the Olympics?
Loa Angeles receives some smog from China and yet the green freaks yell it’s all Americas fault.
Du Shaozhong, deputy director of Beijing’s Environmental Protection Bureau, said: “No mo big stinky. If yoo make air stinky we jail yoo, or yoo pay big money. Yoo sabbe?”
On any given day, 25% of the particulates in the air in the Los Angeles basin is from China.
He also said they went to a place called Silk Alley where you can buy copies of anything you can possibly imagine made by any manufacturer. There were fake iPods, designer handbags and shoes, watches, etc. He bought his dad a fake Rolex for $5.
Bump for later.
Is it too late to boycott this waiting disaster?
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