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China Captures Its "Victory Over Smog" With Dramatic Time Lapse Video
After days of hazardous pollution forced people to wear masks and huddle indoors, residents of Beijing turned their attention to the mayor, Wang Anshun, and his bold vow last year to clear the air. As JapanTimes reports, Wang said, if pollution wasn’t brought under control by 2017, he would cut off his own head and present it to the country’s leadership. So, imagine his relief, when after pollution levels hit 20x WHO's risk limit, a cold front - as caught on tape below - swept away the choking smog (and saved his neck).
The smog surged in northern China on Monday during President Xi Jinping’s visit to Paris, where he vowed to work with U.S. counterpart Barack Obama and other world leaders to stem carbon emissions and fight climate change. The capital raised its pollution alert to orange — the second-highest level — for the first time in 13 months on Sunday, the same day that the Chinese government said it had met pollution-reduction targets for the year.
Late Tuesday, winds began to flush the smog from the region and, by Wednesday morning, PM2.5 levels in Beijing had plunged to single digits. But the skies couldn’t clear before people began mocking local officials who had so frequently vowed to control the pollution.
“The mayor has vowed on his own head to control the smog, but we still have to rely on the wind to control it,” Sichuan People’s Radio wrote on its official Weibo account.
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much of Beijing's pollution is from industrial centers in neighbouring provinces, not much for a city mayor to have direct control over.
That smog was flushed from Beijing out to sea and will arrive in California in a few days.
cleared up in less than an hour.
wow.
that was easy.
They ripped the Mission Impossible sound track, too. How appropriate.
haha Chinese TV-anything looooove to rip of western OSTs
I've seen game show about relationship advice suddenly start playing epic Stormwind track from World of Warcraft or that Elysium track from Gladiator lol
why don't they install giant wind turbines on the top of every building in Beijing. During the day the can generate electricity. During the night, they reverse the blade direction and turn them into giant fants that blow the smog away. booom.
Because even if they were all jet engines, it still wouldn't be enough volume of air to compete with just regular wind movements. A fan is really good at moving a small amount of air, but Beijing is not a small space.
... unless it rains and then it'll be in your tuna sandwich.
The wind that destroyed the Chinese invasion fleet was called the Kami-Kaze (God-wind) by the Japanese.
What's Chinese for Kamikaze?
Ho Lee Shit
Maybe shangdifeng (shang di - God, feng - wind) or tiananfeng (tian an - heavenly, literally 'sky peace', feng - wind). It'd be interesting if a native speaker could give us the right phrase.
That's funny because photochemical smog is activated by sunlight. This happens every night. Everywhere with airflow.
Thanks, Rapetrain.*
*another thing I thought I would never say in my life, but now I've said it here on ZH.
Now I've been happy lately
Thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be
Something good has begun
Oh, I've been smiling lately
Dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be
Some day it's going to come
'Cause out on the edge of darkness
There rides a rape train
Oh, rape train take this country
Come take me home again
Another GLP
Successful satan worship
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Oillah Hoo A-kabar
(Oil devil , come out of your grave)
Muhammed-ur-rasool oillah
(And Muhammed-representsTheOilDevil)
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Petroleum & gas are the dead bodies of ancient creatures.
Climate change is due to CO2 released by fossil fuels
Oil devil drives the economy as well as
Pollution, smog, hurricanes, floods, sea level rise
And Abrahmic religions (christianity, jewwish & Islam) say that the dead shall come
out of their grave & then all these things will happen as well as the final
judgement day.(nuclear war due to oil)
The oil demon will lead the world into nuclear war endangeing the entire planet
The planet will do fine. It is the crawley things on the planet that will hurt.
Your animated avatar is highly annoying.
outside of that it's pretty fuckin' sweet! No?
<--It is designed to be
Its the truth
Its America, the satan
money making from wars
Project Blue Beam. It's been going on for decades.
Mysterious City Appears In Sky Above China
Hologram girl dancing in a shop window in Korea ...
It goes way beyond this in the minds of psychopaths. It will fail.
Theonion did a piece on China few years back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ4K0hHin9s
Major Wang
Keep it up, Tyler
As a gesture to Mother Earth we should close down US factories to compensate for all that nasty pollution!
@moonmac...i'd gladly offer myself up as a human sacrifice for Mother Earth...this shit show is getting tiring anyway.
They have all moved to China anyway.
According to Leuren Moret ( look her up on utube), Russia had used HAARP to keep the radioactive cloud from Fuku away from Russia back in 2011. I'm sure China has their own HAARP array and thus, blew the smog away via ionospheric heating. No magic here folks, just more screwing with nature.
Smog? Call that smog? This is smog. London 1960s
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--qoQWet0r--/18v26tnaw...
Ah, The Great London Outhouse Fire.
I almost forgot about that.