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Beijing Smog: Before And After Pictures

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We could tell readers' that earlier today, just like two weeks ago when Beijing was blanketed by the worst smog on record, the official reading of Beijing air quality moved from "hazardous (at a 24 hour exposure at this level)" to the laughable "Beyond Index" reading (which maybe means Beijing needs a bigger index)...

... or we could just show these two pictures of Beijing before and after the smog: both taken at the same time, at the same place, with the only difference being the latest onslaught of what is now becoming a weekly occurrence of the worst breathing conditions recorded in any industrialized country. 

 

For those who want to learn more, here is the SCMP:

Key index from US Embassy shoots above 350 and authorities maintain 'yellow' smog warning amid growing calls for action against pollutants.

 

Air pollution went from bad to worse in Beijing, after residents of the capital and surrounding areas again found themselves inundated in thick smog, leading to broader calls for a solution.

 

On Tuesday morning, the US embassy’s air quality index (AQI) reading for Beijing stood at 495 and “hazardous” at 11am, after having reached 517, or “beyond index”, at 6am.

 

The index rates anything over 150 as “unhealthy”, over 300 as “hazardous”, while a reading above the upper limit of 500 is regarded as “beyond index”.

 

Meanwhile, the Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Centre gave the figure at 10am as 393, indicating the air in the capital was “severely polluted”.

 

The centre says pollution across Beijing is expected to persist because there is little wind to disperse pollutants. It advises city residents to stay indoors as much as possible.

 

Yesterday municipal weather authorities retained the "yellow" smog warning as visibility remained below 3,000 metres.

 

Air quality index readings in much of downtown Beijing, as measured by the local environmental watchdog and the US embassy, shot above 350 yesterday - a significant increase from Sunday.

 

The US embassy's air quality readings, published hourly on its Twitter feed, showed the level of PM2.5 rose drastically throughout the day to 496 at 4pm- far above the "hazardous" level of 300 micrograms per cubic metre.

 

The Beijing Municipal Environmental Centre, which is under the city's Environmental Protection Bureau, rated air quality in most of the city as being seriously polluted, as PM2.5 readings fluctuated between 340 and 360.

 

When the level of PM2.5 in the air surpasses 100, it is deemed unhealthy for people with heart or lung disease, older adults and children, and those groups should reduce prolonged or heavy exertion, particularly outdoors, according to advice given by the US Embassy.

 

The smog also appeared to have spread farther to southeastern regions, with flight disruptions being reported yesterday morning at 10 mainland airports, including in Hebei's Shijiazhuang and Henan's Zhengzhou .

 

Visibility at the Shijiazhuang airport was reduced to around 100 metres, forcing the cancellation of at least seven flights, and in Zhengzhou more than 10,000 passengers were stranded by 11.30am, as up to 150 flights were either cancelled or delayed, China National Radio reports.

The good news for China is that unlike Japan it will not have to worry about such a petty concern as an aging population: all it needs to do is tell the plebs that the air is good and everyone should enjoy the lovely yellow day and poof: there go a few trillion in underfunded future pensions and entitlement benefits.

 

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Tue, 01/29/2013 - 11:49 | 3194929 earnyermoney
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Where's AnAnoymous when you need some wind to disperse fog?

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 11:50 | 3194938 AgAu_man
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Get the weak off their Healthcare and the old off Gov pensions.  ---> Population Control? 

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 11:52 | 3194945 WSP
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Before anyone jumps to any conclusions about where this "smog" comes from, one should take a look up into the sky at the criminal chemtrailers that dump tons of toxic chemicals and "smog" in the air EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY over most parts of the world, particular in the sick technocratic thugocracy known as Amerika.  The criminals at the highest levels spray us and fill our once beautiful skys with fog and clouds everyday----these sick criminals are FAR WORSE than manufacturers that might put smog in the air---at least sith manufacturers they are making something ---- all the geoengineering thugs do is pollute our air, water, and soil with all forms of toxic chemicals known to kill.

Its hard to believe that our state run media is so corrupt they would complain about factory and coal smog while not reporting on our own criminal government spraying us with millions of tons of chemicals every day.

 

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 12:39 | 3195123 Bansters-in-my-...
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@ WSP... I see a 3  paid goverment shill chemtrail debunkers gave you down votes...

Fuck yous puppets.

 

Statoshpheric Aerosol Geoengineering is real and is happening on an global scale.......

SAG is a pretty name for chemtrails.

Do you really think those are contrails (water vapor )?

......................Stop Global Chemtrail Spraying.........................

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 12:45 | 3195148 walküre
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Aren't they exposing themselves and their families in the process?

If the elite wants to kill off a few million people, they won't waste years to slowly contaminate the air so people suffer, use the health care system (only elite benefit imo) and then wait for the people to die slowly.

China has too many people. The Chinese government knows this full well. They will use war as means of population control one way or another. They like to gamble as well. If they would gain ground and expand their territory and shed a few million in the process, it is Chinese government WIN WIN.

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 16:22 | 3196040 WillyGroper
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>>>>>Aren't they exposing themselves and their families in the process?

 

This is where I have trouble too. Anyone in DC look up? Or is that a safe zone? May they drink from the Potomac and sing soprano.

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 14:26 | 3195497 WillyGroper
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Don't remember, but there's 3 countries that don't allow CT spraying. China & Ecuador are 2 of them.

Took 28 pic's here yesterday. It's been constant since Oct. 

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 15:02 | 3195662 Bansters-in-my-...
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Hey WillyGroper,we get chemtrailed evey day in canada here and like you,we have been sprayed every day ALL DAY since at least October of 2012 also.

 

Keep telling the people you know and love and tell them who is doing it.

 

USA Air force spraying us up here .

Terrorism as I see it.

 

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 16:19 | 3195997 WillyGroper
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Was poopoo'd severely by mentioning it one day by my sis & her Dr. hubby. They let it be known that I was paranoid & read too much. It was not until they got back to NM & witnessed it there that maybe I'm not so paranoid after all. Then, they overheard numerous people in a restaurant yammering on about them. Sent 3 pic's to a friend whose father is an aerospace engineer that worked with the space shuttles & wind tunnel testing. Went for a 2 mile walk yesterday & snapped 28 or so pics. People kept looking at me odd & somehow this crap just does not register with their brain from their lyin eyes. Sent to the friend whose father is an AE yesterday. Here's his take on the 1st three that I sent. Can't wait for his take on 28 in a 40 min time span in various stages of dispersion. Also sent the link for aluminum resistant sorgham patent. 

 

Clouds with dark vertical drops: This is what a normal rain cloud looks like when rain is falling. The rain may be evaporating before it hits the ground, but it still shows up high in the atmosphere as extensions downward from the cloud.  Got our 1st rain here in about a yr. other than spit a couple of times. 

Contrails that stay in the air: It depends on the atmospheric conditions of the air, both temperature and humidity. Some contrails evaporate a short distance after the airplane, while other contrails stay in the air for hours. Contrails that persist are a result of cool atmospheric conditions that support the ice in the air for long periods. 

Chemicals sprayed: If airplanes are indeed releasing chemicals into the air, it depends on the altitude at which they are releasing them as to where they will fall. Unless the plane is low to the ground, anything released from the airplane will dissipate and be spread in all directions as far as Kansas before it reaches the ground. If the airplanes you saw are 10,000 feet or more above the ground, then anything released from them will be widely dissipated before reaching earth.  I can say that after heavy continuous spraying that the leaves on my trees, starting at the crown, completely dessicated & fell off. Leaves under the canopy remained normal, turned colors when the temp dropped & went their normal dormant route.  When red cedars are dying from the top down, you know something is terribly wrong. I don't even think agent orange could kill that invasive species. 

 

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 16:28 | 3196049 WSP
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"Terrorism as I see it."

It absolutely is terrorism----you sit back every day wanting to enjoy the skys and these criminals cannot even let us have a clear sky.  These geoengineering terrorists aka HAARP KNOW that what they are doing will have negative effects---they admitted that there would be collateral damage and that they didn't know "what they didn't know"---THEY DON'T CARE BECAUSE THEY ARE SICK SOCIOPATHS, PERIOD!

They do this sprayng in secret, then say it is a conspiracy even though those of us who watch them "paint the sky" with their grids EVERY DAY know full well.  They cannot even be honest about it and for that reason I believe everyone involved in geoengineering should be round up and shot execution style. 

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 12:02 | 3194982 collon88
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So Davos is just a meeting of Boy Scouts???

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 12:08 | 3195002 Monedas
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Smog is climate change .... you can believe in .... that global warming crap .... leaves me cold !

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 12:09 | 3195010 thewhitelion
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"It advises city residents to stay indoors as much as possible."

I wonder where the indoorair comes from.

 


Tue, 01/29/2013 - 12:41 | 3195136 walküre
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Rabbit Air

go long manufacturers of Korean air purifiers!

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 12:11 | 3195013 Falconsixone
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Is that worse than the Weatern Govenors University add?

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 12:19 | 3195037 Bansters-in-my-...
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Tylers.....

Why don't yous do an article on your own back yards air quality...?

You think being sprayed each and every day by the USA Airforce with barium and aluminum,and a whole cocktails of chemicals and metalsis not note worthy,but it is much better to show other countries problems.

Well.....????

We are all being slowly killed and made sick intentionally.

If people do not know about what the USA is doing with are natural sunlight,and our air,read and learn about Statospheric Aerosol Geoengineering (SAG).

Learn abot HAARP (High Frequency Active Aurara Program.

Learn about Solar Radiation Management (SRM) PRETTY NAME huh.

These fancy little titles are ecological terrorism terms from socio/phycopaths.

Learn up on Own the Weather in 2025.....

USA Brags up how they can and do control our weather.

And are /will use it for destructive purposes

Hasn't anyone noticed how the weather stations are saying ......

"Exrteme weather is the new nornmal so get used of it"

How the fuck should they know...?

How come some much rain in some areas (doubleing records )

and droughts in areas normally average weather patterns usually occur.

Go to a site called strange days/strange skys.....or visa versa.

Go to a site called chemtrail central.

Watch the sky when you are outside.........

tell your friends and family what is going on and suggest they learn up on it.

Please people this is the real deal....lets get it stopped as fast as we can.

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 12:19 | 3195038 Herdee
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Underground at Iran's major nuclear facility the air will be contaminated with high levels of radioactivity after a gigantic explosion that happened on January21/2013.A lot of civilian deaths including Russian technicians.Iran blames Israel.The religious dictator controlling Iran will now be extremely pissed-off.(I'd rather be above ground myself)

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 12:38 | 3195119 walküre
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what's your source?

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 12:23 | 3195048 orangegeek
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Where's Aljazera Gore?  Go fix China with your environmental spew.

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 12:30 | 3195087 Falconsixone
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We will move any American company back to America for $100,000 an hour.. Gov. may pay for your move. Ask me how 1-888-888-8888 ext. 8888

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 12:38 | 3195126 walküre
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rucky bastard! how you get that rucky numba?

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 12:54 | 3195176 TeddyBear
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Now do we want growth here, and all that comes with it. I like this slow growth. 4 more years, deadlock cap hill:)

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 12:56 | 3195178 Monedas
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The Boy Scouts .... seen at Davos .... were just a kinda escort service .... for the codgers .... too old to fuck !

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 13:05 | 3195195 reader2010
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I loved Chairman Mao's women.

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 13:27 | 3195277 stuman
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Looks exactly like the Utah Wasach Front valley basin during the last 3 weeks...till a recent storm helped move it out temporarily.  

 

http://www.abc4.com/content/news/top_stories/story/Utah-cities-named-wor...

 

A mixture of geography(valleys), weather(high pressure) and pollution lvls( cars, factories, cow flatulence...lol) is a wicked brew! 

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 14:20 | 3195463 yellowsub
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The picture on the left is the fake.  I was in Beijing 2 years ago, I did not see any blues skies even on their nicest day.

Hired a driver to drive us out 1 hour to the less visited Great Wall and skies were blue there.

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 17:02 | 3196185 Bunga Bunga
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Don't worry, Chinese officials will fix the index. On the other hand you can make good sausages in Beijing these days.

Tue, 01/29/2013 - 18:10 | 3196485 Lugnut
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If it gets thick enough they can slice sections of it out of the atmosphere and sell it as insulation. Win Win!

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