Red China Going For The Green
Posted by Andy on February 29th, 2008
Now that the World’s eyes are finally on China with the Olympics coming, China is finally trying to figure out how to pull the curtain over all their pollution. Oh and playing God. Read the whole thing, but here’s the conclusion.
Sphere: Related ContentAnother worry: Beijing’s severe air pollution. Dr. Daniel Rosenfeld, a meteorologist at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem who has visited his Chinese colleagues, said there are early indications that pollution decreases rain, which may be driving Beijing and northern China further into drought.
The International Olympic Committee has already threatened to postpone some endurance events if Beijing’s air quality is poor. Beijing, a city of 17 million, is expected to ban 1.5 million vehicles from the roads, shut factories and foundries and halt the city’s frantic construction boom for the games.
“The only thing that cleans up the pollution is the rain, and if they are going to suppress rain, my worry is the pollution will be oppressive,” said Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, who will use the Olympics to study the impact of reduced pollution. “It’s a Catch-22.”
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