Worst smog in a month hits Beijing as Olympic athletes leave it to the last minute

This is London ^

[steve86]

Why all these complaints about the smog? The industrial pollutants are like getting your super-sized vitamins and minerals right from the air you breath!

[the anti-liberal]

"They need big wind farms, only with current applied. I would think they would work like a big motor and blow the crap away."

And what direction would you propose they blow it?

That smog's going somewhere, question is: where?

[nicola_tesla]

Yup. Send this photo to AlBore - altho he’d probably just say it was our smog blown over there.

[the anti-liberal]

"The industrial pollutants are like getting your super-sized vitamins and minerals right from the air you breath!"

Except for the wee fact that human lungs aren't designed to absorb vitamins and minerals from the air.

I wonder how many athlete's careers will be permanently damaged by attending these games due to respiratory damage.

[steve86]

Except for the wee fact that human lungs aren't designed to absorb vitamins and minerals from the air.

Maybe if the smog continues for a few generations survival of the fittest will fix that.

[the anti-liberal]

"Maybe if the smog continues for a few generations survival of the fittest will fix that."

Maybe that's their plan! The Chinese are going to evolve to suit smog air, then they'll blanket the planet in smog and kill off all non smog adapted Chinese, thereby taking control of the planet and claiming victory for Communism.

Victory through smog! The smog war machine!

[chilepepper]

bad karma indeed...

the tibetan monks must have used the secret prayer weapon -- no doubt the market for transplant organs will soon be flooded with used tibetan monk body parts...

[Non-Sequitur]

Who's idea was it anyway for the Olympics to be held in China.

Bush had a hole in his schedule the second week in August and needed somewhere to hang out.

[Old Professer]

These incidents are weather inspired, as an inversion layer sets in, the surface air gets trapped and has no where to go except by being displaced horizontally; if no appreciable wind occurs then the condition can persist until the next air mass comes through.

[Walmartian]

"They need big wind farms, only with current applied. I would think they would work like a big motor and blow the crap away." And what direction would you propose they blow it? That smog's going somewhere, question is: where?

I'm just an idea person. I leave the implementation to others.:)

[MarkeyD]

Paging AlGore, clean up on aisle Chen.

[fso301]

I thought they were planning a massive cloud seeding operation immediately prior to the start of the games.

[traumer]

You can’t really believe that a secret tibetan prayer can achieve a polution/green algae/locust/earthquake effects....

[DPMD]

Wouldn’t this be the ideal time for the networks broadcasting the games to put on a “green” broadcast, as they did with NFL games for a week last year?

Have they got the guts? Are their principles solid? Can they stand up to China?

Oh.

Never mind.

[ChocChipCookie]

Brilliant, insightful comment. /sarc

[tet68]

‘You’re basically at the mercy of the winds,’ he said.

Everybody SING!

The ants are your friends, they’re blowing in the wind.
The ants sir, are blowing in the wind.

[Biggirl]

Bring on the popcorn, this should be interesting.

[Biggirl]

This should be so embaressing to the ChiComs bigtime.

[Biggirl]

That flag pin should be the least of the little ChiComs worries.