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Ha! - In the article that smoggy image was worth a 1000 clear breaths on this side of the pond.
by dbomhof 9y ago
Ha! - In the article that smoggy image was worth a 1000 clear breaths on this side of the pond.
- craftyguy 9y agoI guess you've never been to LA on a hot, windless summer day.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoMoved to LA from Beijing, no comparison unless there was a forest fire going on.
- kurthr 9y agoYou can't even fairly compare LA in the 80s (where I lived) to Beijing (or Hebei) today, much less the "smogless" wonderland that is the valley of today. The winter smog (ignoring outliers like CNY or political events) is worse than you can imagine. Typical PM2.5 is in the hundreds... a bad day in the week might be 500, and once a year they break the instruments with 900+ measurements.
- miketery 9y agoI can't infer whether 80s LA was worse or better than Beijing today from your comment.
- kurthr 9y agoSorry for the confusion, on the worst single day of smog I observed in Pasadena during the early 80s, the visibility was about as bad some 5-10 days I have observed in Beijing and multiple other cities in the last 2-3 years. It's not getting better, and it is so much worse than it was 15 years ago! I thought it was getting better in China this year... I really did, but then winter came and you could barely see across the street at midday. Southern California meanwhile went from months of missing mountains to a day or two here and there during the summer over the course of 10 years as catalytic converters became standard.