@blobbles, i for sure agree, many of the heavily polluting industries in the USA got the EPA off there back by just moving the manufacturing to other countries which welcomed them with open arms even though the manufacturing process was going to cause great pollution to there environment. The steel cities in the USA like Pittsburgh and all along the southern great lakes cities air quality greatly improved when a lot of the production of steel moved to China.
Spartans
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Holy Crap, Chengdu's level now at 6:30 PM is 1008 !!!!! Classified as Hazardous.
Spartans
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Holy Crap, Chengdu's level now at 6:30 PM is 1008 !!!!! Classified as Hazardous.
At 9:00 p.m. Chengdu was merely "unhealthy" at 186, which I guess is some kind of improvement. Meanwhile, Kunming was at 101 which is rated as "unhealthy for sensitive groups". I guess that would be anyone who likes to breathe!
kunming used to be consistently under 50 i think. looks like the good old days are gone.
All this modernization is killing us. I miss the days when hi-rise buildings were few and road construction was few. I'm sick of all the dust that's flying into my face.
there was a farm in north yunnan for sale advertised on this site a while back for 800K yuan. if only i wasn't 799,999K yuan short, i'd buy it in a heartbeat.
Is the PM reading here in Kunming due to the dust? I know it probably doesn't make a difference, but it would be interesting to know how much of the pollution is dust and how much is toxic fumes from buses/cars/factories/trucks/people farting etc!
Thinking about it, the PM reading could be thrown out by the dust.
Lots of overseas channels reporting the dust storms causing a spike in pollution levels in BJ. Not sure of the mechanism for dust and PM readings, except that dust is particulate matter.
The PM reading will definitely include the dust, I just wonder what percentage it is. But I highly doubt whether they get down to that level of analysis. Would still be interesting to know though. We had rain in the south this morning and the air tastes / smells / feels all clean!
