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Looking at the linked PDFs, all the data comes from "China National Environmental Monitoring Center". Should we even trust this as much as we trust the Chinese
by mmagin 9y ago
Looking at the linked PDFs, all the data comes from "China National Environmental Monitoring Center". Should we even trust this as much as we trust the Chinese government's macroeconomic data?
- Analemma_ 9y agoThe US embassy in Beijing does their own monitoring of air quality and has a public feed for it (this was the source of the "crazy bad" description from a couple years ago). Presumably their numbers agree with these, or the author would've pointed it out.
- fenwick67 9y agoThat is a big assumption to make
- dudus 9y agoOnly if you didn't read the article since the author straight up says he checked against US embassy numbers. "Using data from almost 250 government monitors throughout the country, which closely matches monitors maintained by the United States embassy in Beijing and consulates around the country, I found major improvements."