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Perhaps you were there during a weather pattern that minimized the effects. Unless you are saying you had a long-term low pollution experience there, which I th
by hellofunk 6y ago
Perhaps you were there during a weather pattern that minimized the effects. Unless you are saying you had a long-term low pollution experience there, which I think is impossible.
- komali2 6y ago> Unless you are saying you had a long-term low pollution experience there, which I think is impossible. Over a year of anecdotal data using my own senses, which I consider extremely sensitive to allergens. Maybe some pollution data will indicate otherwise? It's certainly no rural Kansas, and I bet industrial hot spots in Taiwan suffer (like near TPE), but yea I felt great in Taipei. Far better than most Asian cities, perhaps comparable to Tokyo.
- hellofunk 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution_in_Taiwan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution_in_Taiwan > based on reports by the World Health Organization, that the air quality in Taiwan is generally the worst of all of the Four Asian Tigers, in particularly drawing attention to the annual mean PM10 level of Taiwan (54 micrograms per cubic meter). The annual mean PM10 level of the country's capital Taipei (47.1 micrograms per cubic meter) made the city rank only 1,089 among 1,600 included cities around the world. Based on 2004 data by Taiwan's Department of Environmental Protection, the annual mean PM10 level for Taiwan had, for the last decade, been worse than the European Union limit value (40 micrograms per cubic meter) every year.
- monting 6y agoTaipei is actually pretty OK. Other cities in Taiwan, not so much.