Beijing Pollution Watch

CHEN:
It's only 28 days before the Olympic Games and the National Stadium is barely visible due to smog. Let's take a look.

STORY:
This is Beijing at 8-am yesterday and we are fortunate that today is rated a "Blue Sky Day."

The Beijing Ministry for Environmental Protection said the Chinese Air Pollution Index for yesterday was API 86, or grade 2 in the Chinese system. Grade 2 meaning "comparatively good" counts as a "blue sky day" in China.

One tourist taking photos of the stadium through the smog says China should introduce a new sport called "find the Bird's Nest."

Environmental experts have in the past cast doubts on Beijing's claims of improvement in air quality, particularly the much-vaunted "blue sky days" tally by which the authorities measure the improvement.

A 12-person panel, including scientists from around the world, will monitor and forecast air quality in Beijing during the Olympics.

The panel has promised to produce forecasts up to a week ahead.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said it might reschedule endurance events such as the marathon to prevent health risks to athletes competing for more than an hour.

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[Aleque]

@TBird4490 I am almost certain that something radical will happen soon. If we won't make that choise, the Nature will make that decision for us.

[TBird4490]

Ahhh... the smell of overpopulation and depleting resources in the morning..

How about a new sport called, stop killing the earth you FUCKS.

[missingAtlantis]

please stop ruining the planet so that we can live in big isolated houses from which we drive long lonely hours on a freeway to a job we hate every day

[scpmr]

This is how they fight overpopulation

[maureenOWW]

@akirafactor Commie dictators. You can bet your life THEY don't have to breathe that filth.

[ChrisVaughn85]

Ahhhhhhh....the smell of progress! :)

[ChrisVaughn85]

@WinterHaven LOL!

[MrIrishrover2011]

@akirafactor your mother is dirtier than both

[WorthWatchingVv]

That's dirty.

[akirafactor]

Which is dirtier, Beijing's air or Beijing's communist dictators?