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Severe Smog in Beijing Prompts Smog Research

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 02 2014, @11:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the if-you-could-see-me-now dept.

hankwang writes:

"For the past couple of days, China's capital has been suffering under severe smog, leaving the sun and skyscrapers barely visible. The highest concentration of small airborne particles (PM2.5) was 0.50 mg per cubic meter, a factor 20 above the Word Health Organization's safe limit. Scientists went as far as comparing this to a nuclear winter. The worst seems to be over for now: today, the monitors are reading 0.180 mg/m3, only a factor 7 above the WHO limit.

The Chinese smog seems to behave differently from the smog in Europe and the US. Existing scientific models developed in the West do not work well. To improve the models and understanding, plans are underway to build a 600 cubic-meter (that's 21,000 cubic ft or 160,000 US gallon) transparent dome as a smog chamber."

[NOTE TO EDITOR: I can't get slashcode to display the mu symbol, so I converted to milligrams] [Ed's Note: Thankyou - but what is it in firkins?]

 
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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @06:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @06:15AM (#9968)

    TFA is about smog in Beijing and your attempt to turn this into an anti-China rant won't get you any additional brownie point.

    No, the grandparent is on topic, unlike you who seem like an apologist or a shill.

    As for your fourth link - it was dated 2012.

    What was your point here? Is two years a long time in the history of China? If you don't have a reasonable argument, don't bring it up. It only serves to weaken your position.

    Are you trying to turn this site into that other side where politics bring in 400+ argumentative comments ?

    If you want to see smog as a purely technical problem, that's fine be as naive as you wish. But allow others to express their thoughts then as well.

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