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Pollution cancels more than 220 Beijing flights: Xinhua [China]
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/26/ ^ | 2015/12/26

Posted on 12/26/2015 8:27:42 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster

Pollution cancels more than 220 Beijing flights: Xinhua

CNBC.com staff | @CNBC

22 Hours Ago

More than 220 flights at Beijing's Capital International Airport were canceled Friday as pollution caused poor visibility, China's official Xinhua news agency reported.

Beijing's pollution alert level was upgraded to yellow on Friday from Thursday's blue, Xinhua reported Friday, noting that the four color-coded levels, in order from most severe to least, are red, orange, yellow and blue. Beijing has issued two red alerts in December -- its only two ever. A red alert dramatically limits car use, advises schools to close, shuts down outdoor construction sites and closes certain industrial plants.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News
KEYWORDS: beijing; china; flight; pollution

1 posted on 12/26/2015 8:27:43 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Jeff Head; Tainan; hedgetrimmer; Unam Sanctam; taxesareforever; Avenger; ...

P!


2 posted on 12/26/2015 8:28:13 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Beijing Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index (AQI)

Overall rating: 127 = Unhealthy. Some spots up to 160.

3 posted on 12/26/2015 8:39:02 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: P.O.E.

Chengdu up to 296.

For contrast, NYC is at 31

http://aqicn.org/city/usa/newyork/


4 posted on 12/26/2015 8:45:42 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: P.O.E.

According to the left though we are the devil incarnate with swill running out of every orifice of the landscape.


5 posted on 12/26/2015 8:47:02 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: TigerLikesRooster

That’s pretty bad when aircraft flights have a pollute-out.


6 posted on 12/26/2015 8:48:12 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: P.O.E.

A few days ago, it was over 500.


7 posted on 12/26/2015 8:52:13 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Wow.


8 posted on 12/26/2015 8:55:41 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: P.O.E.

Downtown Los Angeles is 28!!! Yet the Communists would have us believe that America is up to its eyeballs in toxic swill-don’t fall for it!!!


9 posted on 12/26/2015 9:06:08 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Give them a break. The ChiComs have promised to do something about it starting in 2035. They promised our pretend president.


10 posted on 12/26/2015 9:21:24 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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