Posted on 12/06/2013 9:26:26 AM PST by mojito
SHANGHAI, China -- Hundreds of flights were delayed or cancelled on Friday in China's commercial hub of Shanghai as record levels of air pollution shrouded the city in smog, prompting authorities to issue the highest level of health warning.
The incident is especially embarrassing at a time when China seeks to build Shanghai into a global business hub on par with the likes of London, New York and Hong Kong by 2020.
On Friday afternoon, the Shanghai government issued its severest health warning as the city's pollution index ranged between 23 times and 31 times the levels recommended by international health officials.
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The unusually noxious haze was caused by several factors, including industrial pollution and auto emissions trapped by cold, windless weather, said Xu Bin, an associate professor at Shanghai's Tongji University.
By 2 a.m. ET Friday, the level of PM2.5 particulate matter, or tiny particles in the air that are the most hazardous to health, reached a "severely polluted" 466, according to the Shanghai government's monitoring website.
A similar measure by the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai showed a reading of 503, a level described as being beyond the index on its website.
Levels above 300 are considered hazardous, while the World Health Organization recommends a daily level of no more than 20.
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And in this country liberals worry everytime someone lights a match. I think they only see what’s immediately around them and intentionally ignore the rest.
Captain Wetolo says he can’t see the ground.
Capitalists in the West are quite a bit RESTRAINED by a body of law that has been built up by Environmentalism, over the years. It’s sort of disingenuous to say that these capitalists in the West are effectively “doing their thing” in an unrestrained manner.
China, on the other hand, doesn’t have that same body of law. There are capitalists in China, too - and the result you see there are how the capitalists work there under “that” body of law.
China’s Communist, so they get a free pass on destroying the environment.
“Captain Wetolo says he can’t see the ground.”
And navigator Bang Ding Ow is getting nervous again ...
(That was one of the funniest things I have ever seen ... my wife and I almost died of laughter watching that on You Tube ... it shows you the level of idiocy in your average newsroom too)
But China satisfies the liberal model because for liberals it's only the capitalist part of China causing the pollution.
China concerns me more than Russia.
Air Traffic Controller, Omi Gah, is upset. He is telling Captan Wetu Lo to pull up, or at least give the stick to the East Indian copilot, Gung A Braikit
All I can say, is “Wait ‘til summer!” When it’s already naturally hazy, the smog will be worse.
Cant we do something?
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“But, but, but I get to hear all the time how careless capitalists are with the environment and only communism can save us from this exploitation of our resources, air and water.”
Well, according to many American communists, the Chinese just aren’t ‘doing communism right’ - that’s where the problem lies.
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