Posted on 01/15/2014 8:23:58 PM PST by Olog-hai
Beijing’s skyscrapers receded into a dense gray smog Thursday as the capital saw the season’s first wave of extremely dangerous pollution, with the concentration of toxic small particles registering more than two dozen times the level considered safe.
The air took on an acrid odor, and many of the city’s commuters wore industrial strength face masks as they hurried to work.
The city’s air quality is often poor, especially in winter when stagnant weather patterns combine with an increase in coal-burning to exacerbate other forms of pollution and create days-long periods of heavy smog. But the readings early Thursday for particles of PM2.5 pollution marked the first ones of the season above 500 micrograms per cubic meter. …
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to paraphrase that great icon of the democrat party libtards “so what we have plenty of people”
Hey China: Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em.
The AP must be in error. China has the best form of government for solving these kinds of environmental problems:
http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/15/un-climate-chief-communism-is-best-to-fight-global-warming/
Please desist from your your dissent against communism. /s
Its only fair that Americans should pay higher taxes to fix the problem. You know, according to Kerry, Obama Pelosi, Hlliary Newt, Gore, Soros...
Heard that on the radio earlier today. Waxing worse and worse all right; deceiving and being deceived . . .
Must be the jet stream moving the bad air from America, since the ‘experts’ on global warming tell us that all pollution is generated by American capitalists.
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