http://news.yahoo.com/china-smog-almost-50-times-recommendations-042958972.html
A swathe of China was blanketed with acrid smog Monday after levels of dangerous particulates reached around 50 times World Health Organization maximums, in what environmental campaigners said were the highest figures ever recorded in the country.
Pictures showed smog so thick that buildings in Changchun, the capital of Jilin province in the northeast, were rendered invisible.
One image showed a restaurant's neon sign seemingly floating in mid-air above traffic, proclaiming in yellow: “Eastern Dumpling King”.
Levels of PM2.5, the tiny airborne particles considered most harmful to health, reached 860 micrograms per cubic metre in the city of around eight million.
The World Health Organization’s recommended maximum is a 24-hour average of 25 micrograms.
“Today’s haze is pretty severe and choking - when I walked out the door I thought someone’s house was on fire,” said one poster in Changchun on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo.
This doesn't sound very reassuring:
Beijing has pledged that its emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas pollutant released from the burning of coal, will peak by "around 2030".
A swathe of China was blanketed with acrid smog Monday after levels of dangerous particulates reached around 50 times World Health Organization maximums, in what environmental campaigners said were the highest figures ever recorded in the country.
Pictures showed smog so thick that buildings in Changchun, the capital of Jilin province in the northeast, were rendered invisible.
One image showed a restaurant's neon sign seemingly floating in mid-air above traffic, proclaiming in yellow: “Eastern Dumpling King”.
Levels of PM2.5, the tiny airborne particles considered most harmful to health, reached 860 micrograms per cubic metre in the city of around eight million.
The World Health Organization’s recommended maximum is a 24-hour average of 25 micrograms.
“Today’s haze is pretty severe and choking - when I walked out the door I thought someone’s house was on fire,” said one poster in Changchun on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo.
This doesn't sound very reassuring:
Beijing has pledged that its emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas pollutant released from the burning of coal, will peak by "around 2030".
