[cogitator]

The article has a small figure. I may come back to this and see if I can find a better, larger version to post here.

[Ron in Acreage]

This can't be true. Only capitalist pig nations, like the USA, pollute. Great communist/socialist utopias, like China, never pollute. Bush is behind this phony research.

[TChris]

When did the word "smog" become politically incorrect? Now, air pollution is called "haze".

[.cnI redruM]

Command economies are notoriously atrocious at controlling pollution output. This phenomenon sounds similar to the Arctic Haze problem discovered in Alaska.

http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/publications/pdf_2005/thursday/Quinn.pdf#search='Arctic%20Haze'

For a possibly gloomy look at what could be ahead for Command and Control China, "Ecocide In The USSR" is scary reading.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0465017819/ref=sib_fs_top/104-3174455-3215917?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S00M&checkSum=yaEPHSRz%2FW2MU2OPW8jOKi%2F0%2BPsBT%2B8%2FWQR7gIzfHGI%3D#reader-page

[Physicist]

What's more, the haze has masked the effects of global warming across large parts of China, particularly in the central and eastern regions, where daily high temperatures have actually been decreasing. This may seem like good news, Qian said, but any success China has in curbing emissions will accelerate the effects of global warming in those areas when cooling is unmasked.

You call it masking. I call it remediation.

[Mr. K]

It is amazing how they can twist ANY argument to mean global warming

[Hayzo]

Did somebody say 'Haze'?

[subterfuge]

This article is NO exaggeration. In fact it may be understating the severity of the Smaze.

Pics my uncle brought back of Bejing are unbelievable. You can barely see across the street!