Chinese smog

[G0GQK]

In Beijing, a thousand new cars are taken on the roads every day and there is now severe pollution in the capital. The air has turned brown with visibility barely 200 yards and the skyline has disappeared.

With no wind for 14 days the cars and the coal fired power stations are causing serious pollution.

Shanghai has banned cycling in the main streets of the city in order to give it a modern appearance, and this will also happen in Beijing unless they can train the cyclists to obey road regulations.

China's largest exporter, China Bicycle in Shenzhan, which manufactured 3 million bicycles a year went bankrupt last week.

It seems if you get "wind" you cause pollution, and if you don't get wind, you still get pollution, and the air goes brown. Answer, ride a bike.
http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif 73, Mel

[KE7DFP]

I think your starting to see the wisdom of the U.S. not signing the Kyoto "treaty"

[K8YS]

China sucks!

I've been there TWICE, and both times, the air pollution was incredible.

I have decided that the next time some CLOWN tells me that the USA is the source of "green house gasses", I will knock them on thier butt.

Beijing, Nanjing, Yaunzhou, Taiyaun (this was the WORST!) Guangzhou... I did not see clear skies until we reached Hong Kong.

When they opened the big sliding glass doors at the airport in Taiyaun, I had a flashback to the coal towns of eastern Ohio in the early 60's.

A extremely high number of birth defects in being attributed to pollution in Taiyaun.

As for cyclists, they seem to stay on the sidewalk side of the metal gate barriers.

I have never seen 7 cars fit in 4 lanes before my trips to China.

I am very surprised at two things, on, there are no wreck cars on the city streets and I did not see body parts in the streets, both very surprising after watching the traffic flow.

Coal fired power plants, coal fired household cooking, pollution controls on cars that are 10 years behind USA standards.

[n0jaa]

Seems that we import just about everything from China. Before long, we'll be importing their smog!

Paul, N0JAA.

[KC7UP]

I was in China in 1949. Certainly was different then.
Curt

[KG4CGC]

Nasa satellite photo of smog over the Chinese coast:
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/2533/ChinaSmog_M2002071.jpg

[K8YS]

When I was there the first time, 2001, one of the families that we were traveling with... the son said "dad, can I borrow the camera?", dad asked why, son said "I want to take a picture of the moon", dad said "son, that is NOT the moon, it is only the sun trying to shine thru the smog".