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Flights grounded amid thick smog in Beijing

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Extremely high pollution levels shrouded eastern China for the second time in two weeks today, forcing airlines in Beijing and elsewhere to cancel flights because of poor visibility and prompting government warnings for residents to stay indoors. (www.irishexaminer.com) 기타...

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TiredTom
Tom Bruce 7
I remember LA in the 50s and 60s.... choking, coughing, brown haze... awful, awful stuff... they make a big deal of the smog in LA now but it's nothing like the past and not even close to China... once spent 4 hours in Xian waiting for the smog to clear enough for take-off... saw a dirty coal power plant in Beijing belching dark brown horrible smoke... would never be allowed to operate in LA in the 50s let alone now.... we should be exporting our pollution technology to China
energy
Me too! I was flying VFR in a Cessna or Piper in the 60's in the L.A. area- I was not yet IFR rated. I remember the smog causing me to be in IMC even though it wasn't called that by ATC. I could see nothing but a hole straight below the plane and had to navigate back to VNY on instruments. ATC was busy because lots of VFR pilots were in the same boat. Brings back not so fond memories!
skyfly12
Yeah I live here. It was terrible. You seriously can't taxi a plane in the smog here...
NotAPilotJustLikeUrNews
Kat Rose 2
Maybe we should all consume less. And stop sending our Manu. Needs to coal burning countries. What, do you think by burning it in a windy area it escapes our nasal passages? It still pollutes the atmosphere.
In California people on the coast have dust from coal smoke in China.
canuck44
canuck44 1
The interesting part is that this will not get any better with the new airport to the South of Beijing. They are trapped by their topography with mountains to the North and East; without wind it just sits there.

Their only real industrial hope beyond pollution controls is to relocate the worst offenders to the South and Southwest, but they have to find a better source of energy for the homes of Beijing that burn brown coal for heat and cooking. On a cold day every home is belching the brown smoke so characteristic of the smog and without wind, it just sits there. The air is both irritative and allergenic from first hand exposure.
petesundstrom
Yes, let us not only send them our smog technology for a very inflated price but stop buying from any of the coal pollution belching countries.
NotAPilotJustLikeUrNews
Kat Rose 1
Maybe we should all consume less. And stop sending our Manu. Needs to coal burning countries. What, do you think by burning it in a windy area it escapes our nasal passages? It still pollutes the atmosphere.In California people on the coast have dust from coal smoke in China.
bobhirst
Flying into LAX in 1968, I remember crossing over the ring of mountains surrounding the city. Before crossing, you could just about see every rock and blade of grass. After, well, awful yellow-green smog. What we ARE exporting is our pollution.
devsfan
ken young 0
and we have ninnies running around our country saying we have the filthiest air on the planet...
GlennLoafmann
wait! I've never said that; never heard it said - EVERYBODY needs to cut back on pollution. China does, we do, other places too. When "we" talk about pollution, we're not talking about only our country.
whip5209
Reminds me of Los Angeles in the '60s. Coming soon to Bejing, maybe? California emissions, E85 gas, ban on diesel buses, scrubbers on coal power plants?
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 -4
Maybe they should spend money on pollution control instead of buying US debt. Happy choking !
commserver
jim lou 0
Maybe they should be spending money on pollution controls instead obtaining all those very advanced aircraft and that aircraft carrier.

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