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    Are the debunk articles getting more likes than the claims?

    Because that's the only way to tell the truth on the web. BY DEMOCRACY!

    This Photo Went Viral — But You Probably Didn't Get the Full Story Behind It
    By Chris Miles 3 hours ago

    The news: If you read TIME, the Huffington Post, CBS News or the Daily Mail this past weekend, you likely saw this viral photo of Chinese citizens being forced to watch virtual broadcasts of the sunrise in Beijing, thanks to sun-clouding, throat-clogging levels of murky industrial fog.


    Image Credit: Getty Images via Daily Mail

    The Daily Mail ran the story with the photo caption on Friday, which opened with the sentence, "The smog has become so thick in Beijing that the city's natural light-starved masses have begun flocking to huge digital commercial television screens across the city to observe virtual sunrises."

    Chilling and creepy.

    This photo might have you wondering whether Beijing is just barely beating us to that polluted, dystopian near-future — a real-life sci-fi nightmare of smog and industrial poison slowly choking us all to death.

    But the whole story is a fake.

    The truth: As TechInAsia reports, the smog is real but the fabled publicly-orchestrated virtual sunrise is not.

    The sunrise was part of a 24/7, seven-days-a-week ad for tourism in the Shangdong province that runs continuously no matter how much smog is flowing into Beijing that day. This particular animation is less than 10 seconds of the ad; the photographer in question just took a lucky snapshot.

    That didn't stop this:


    Image Credit: TechInAsia

    Whoops! Here is a similar Shangdong tourism video. Unsurprisingly for a campaign titled "Friendly Shangdong," it features many sunrises.

    Other elements of the original Daily Mail story didn't seem to make sense. The story claimed, "... as the season's first wave of extremely dangerous smog hit — residents donned air masks and left their homes to watch the only place where the sun would hail over the horizon that morning."

    But why would Beijing residents willingly risk severe air pollution just to stare at an LED screen? (And why are most of the few residents pictured not paying any attention to the screen?)

    Adding insult to injury, the quote from a Chinese traffic coordinator in the Mail's original story was lifted verbatim from an unrelated Associated Press article, apparently without attribution.

    Did you fall for this story? I mean, of course, it must be true, right? Because you read it in the Daily Mail:



    The bottom line: Pollution in China, especially in major cities bordered by industrial regions, is indeed a horrifying, life-threatening problem for many of the country's 1.3 billion-plus residents. But flocking to giant LED screens just to see the sun? Hardly.
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    Some redemption for my unfounded viral rumor post

    Thanks for catching that, btw.

    China Exports Pollution to U.S., Study Finds
    By EDWARD WONGJAN. 20, 2014

    BEIJING — Filthy emissions from China’s export industries are carried across the Pacific Ocean and contribute to air pollution in the Western United States, according to a paper published Monday by a prominent American science journal.

    The research is the first to quantify how air pollution in the United States is affected by China’s production of goods for export and by global consumer demand for those goods, the study’s authors say. It was written by nine scholars based in three nations and was published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which last year published a paper by other researchers that found a drop in life spans in northern China because of air pollution.

    The latest paper explores the environmental consequences of interconnected economies. The scientists wrote that “outsourcing production to China does not always relieve consumers in the United States — or for that matter many countries in the Northern Hemisphere — from the environmental impacts of air pollution.”

    The movement of air pollutants associated with the production of goods in China for the American market has resulted in a decline in air quality in the Western United States, the scientists wrote, though less manufacturing in the United States does mean cleaner air in the American East.

    Jintai Lin, the lead author of the paper, said in an interview that he and the other scientists wanted to examine the transborder effects of emissions from export industries to look at how consumption contributes to global air pollution.

    “We’re focusing on the trade impact,” said Mr. Lin, a professor in the department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at Peking University’s School of Physics. “Trade changes the location of production and thus affects emissions.”

    Powerful global winds called westerlies can carry pollutants from China across the Pacific within days, leading to “dangerous spikes in contaminants,” especially during the spring, according to a news release from the University of California, Irvine, where one of the study’s co-authors, Steven J. Davis, is an earth system scientist. “Dust, ozone and carbon can accumulate in valleys and basins in California and other Western states,” the statement said.

    Black carbon is a particular problem because rain does not wash it out of the atmosphere, so it persists across long distances, the statement said. Black carbon is linked to asthma, cancer, emphysema, and heart and lung disease.

    “Los Angeles experiences at least one extra day a year of smog that exceeds federal ozone limits because of nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide emitted by Chinese factories making goods for export,” the statement said.

    Using a modeling system called GEOS-Chem, the scientists estimated that in 2006, sulfate concentrations in the Western United States increased as much as 2 percent, and ozone and carbon monoxide levels also increased slightly because of the transportation of pollutants from emissions that resulted from the manufacture of goods for export to the United States. Because the Eastern United States has a much denser population, the outsourcing of manufacturing to China still resulted in “an overall beneficial effect for the U.S. public health,” even if Western states suffered, the scientists wrote.

    The amount of air pollution in the Western United States resulting from emissions from China is still very small compared with the amount produced by sources in the United States that include traffic and domestic industries.

    The study’s scientists also looked at the impact of China’s export industries on its own air quality. They estimated that in 2006, China’s exporting of goods to the United States was responsible for 7.4 percent of production-based Chinese emissions for sulfur dioxide, 5.7 percent for nitrogen oxides, 3.6 percent for black carbon and 4.6 percent for carbon monoxide.

    The interdisciplinary research project was begun two and a half years ago by scholars in Britain, China and the United States. The group included economists as well as earth and environmental scientists. The methodology applied various analyses and modeling to the Chinese economy and to the earth’s atmosphere and weather patterns.

    The scholars who gave emissions estimates for China’s export industries, a significant part of the country’s economy, looked at data from 42 sectors that are direct or indirect contributors to emissions. They included steel and cement production, power generation and transportation. Coal-burning factories were the biggest sources of pollutants and greenhouse gases, which contribute to global warming.

    In recent years, scholars have been studying the impact of China’s total emissions on global air pollution and warming. Residents of nations in the path of winds carrying pollutants from China have grown alarmed at what they believe to be deteriorating air quality in their countries because of that pollution. In Japan, for instance, an environmental engineer has attributed a mysterious pestilence that is killing trees on Yakushima Island to pollutants from China.

    Alex L. Wang, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies Chinese environmental policy, said after reading the new paper: “This is a reminder to us that a significant percentage of China’s emissions of traditional pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions are connected to the products we buy and use every day in the U.S. We should be concerned, not only because this pollution is harming the citizens of China, but because it’s damaging the air quality in parts of the U.S.”

    Mr. Lin, the report’s lead author, said he hoped that the research would stimulate discussion of adopting consumption-based accounting of emissions, rather than just production-based accounting.

    Exports accounted for 24.1 percent of China’s entire economic output last year, down sharply from a peak of 35 percent in 2007, before the global financial crisis began to weaken overseas demand even as China’s domestic economy continued to grow. The 2013 number takes into account economic data that was released on Monday.

    Economists caution that this does not mean that a quarter of the economy was dedicated to producing goods for exports, since China still does a lot of reprocessing instead of making exports entirely itself.

    But the proportion of China’s exports that are made in China has risen steadily in recent years as many companies move more of their supply chains, instead of just having final assembly work done here. So the overall percentages of economic output might not by themselves be fair indicators of the importance of exports to the Chinese economy.

    Chinese exports to the United States sagged in 2009 because of the global financial crisis but have resumed vigorous growth. By China’s method of counting, which includes only direct shipments from mainland Chinese ports to the United States and excludes goods that travel by way of Hong Kong, Chinese exports grew to $368.5 billion last year from $252.3 billion in 2008. By contrast, China imported only $152.6 billion worth of goods directly from the United States.

    The United States, which does include goods briefly transiting Hong Kong in its trade figures with mainland China, has shown even larger American trade deficits with China for many years, because Chinese companies use Hong Kong heavily for exports but much less for imports.

    Keith Bradsher contributed reporting from Hong Kong.
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    Argumentum ad numerum is a fallacious argument!

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    Free masks!

    I don't think those little masks will help all that much. Go to Shanghai. Get a free mask and lung cancer.
    Shanghai considers arming residents with anti-pollution masks
    Proposals to distribute free masks come after the Chinese mega-city suffered periods of severe smog that saw flights diverted, schools closed and citizens ordered to stay indoors

    Shanghai’s pollution problem had become “more and more obvious” since 2012 Photo: REUTERS

    By Tom Phillips, Shanghai
    11:08AM GMT 21 Jan 2014

    Shanghai is considering distributing protective masks to its smog-choked residents, according to reports in the local media.

    The proposals were made by Zhu Junbo, a local representative of China’s top political advisory body, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and follow a period of unusually toxic air pollution in the financial hub.

    Shanghai’s pollution problem had become “more and more obvious” since 2012, Mr Zhu argued, according to the city's Xinmin Evening News.

    "The government could purchase the right kind of masks, or select companies to produce qualified masks for distribution,” he told state media.

    “We need to treat the haze at the source. We have noticed that Shanghai’s government and the central government have adopted many methods [to tackle pollution], but it may take time to bring about fundamental change,” added Mr Zhu, who is also the deputy bureau chief of Shanghai’s media regulator, the Press and Publication Administration.

    It was not immediately clear if the proposals would see authorities give masks to all of the city’s more than 23 million residents. Mr Zhu said children, traffic police and those who worked outdoors should be given priority. The masks would be distributed through the city’s health care system, the Xinmin Evening News reported.

    The report came as Yang Xiong, Shanghai’s mayor, told an annual summit of Communist Party leaders and advisers that his city needed to “break away from the conventional path of development.”

    “Environmental capacity is strained and air pollution such as haze has become a pronounced problem,” Mr Yang told Shanghai’s People’s Congress on Sunday.

    Mr Yang vowed to “pay more attention to the atmospheric environment” although on Tuesday the Shanghai Daily newspaper said the city’s investment in environmental protection would not rise from its current level of around 3% of economic output.

    In 2014, Shanghai aimed to “eliminate 500 heavily polluting installations and facilities,” the mayor said.

    Shanghai has traditionally been considered less polluted than the notoriously foul-skied Beijing. But in recent months recurrent bouts of severe smog have put its political leaders under pressure and made facemasks a common sight on the city’s streets.

    Last December Shanghai suffered one of the worst spells of air pollution on record. Sports events, lessons and flights were cancelled as a putrid yellow haze enveloped the city and levels of PM2.5, a miniscule airborne particulate that has been linked to hearth disease and cancer, rocketed to levels that were more than 20 times those deemed safe by the World Health Organisation.

    Last Wednesday, Shanghai introduced a “special emergency pollution” plan under which the government will be able to force cars off the city’s roads and close schools during particularly bad spells of pollution.

    Some reports have suggested Shanghai may be suffering the consequences of a crackdown on polluting steel mills in the industrial belt around Beijing.

    Seeking to clear Beijing’s skies, authorities closed 8,347 “heavily polluting companies” in the northern province of Hebei last year, China’s official news agency said last week.

    However, analysts believe some dirty industries, including steel, cement and glass, may have simply migrated to provinces surrounding Shanghai, including Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangxi.

    “It could be that they reduce pollution in Hebei and it just pops up again here in Shanghai,” Graeme Train, a Shanghai commodities analyst, told Reuters earlier this month.

    Shanghai is not the only Chinese city grappling with how to clear its skies.

    On Tuesday, state media quoted senior Communist Party officials in the provinces of Guangxi and Hubei who voiced concerns over increasing levels of smog.

    “[Guangxi’s capital] Nanning used to be famous for its clean air but after looking at the city’s air quality readings last year, it’s hard to be optimistic,” Jiang Hongbing, the deputy head of the Communist Party’s provincial supervision department, told Xinhua, China’s official news service. Mr Jiang urged his province’s leaders to “act before things get really serious.”

    Li Hong, a senior official from Hubei province, said: “[Locals] feel the problems of Beijing and Shanghai are now happening around us.”

    In an interview with the state-run China Daily, Shen Xiaoyue, a senior official from China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection, warned: “The situation is too serious to allow further delays."

    “After 30 years of fast-track economic development since the 1980s the environmental damage that’s resulted from the GDP-centred policy has become all too apparent,” added Ms Shen, who is director of the ministry’s policy research centre.

    “The public is understandably alarmed by the heavy smog which on bad days seems to engulf the country and, judging by all the evidence, if not handled properly and directly, environmental issues have the potential to not only erode government credibility but also to threaten social stability.”
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    That's just uuuuuugly! And, yes, those masks are woefully inefficient. They are meant to keep your fluids from being sprayed on other people, but they don't do much in the way of filtering out that air. Below is a link to the mask they should be using. They rank right up there with the best respirators. I'm not a fit seal salesman. I just thought it was a good idea to offer up this info for those who need a really good mask.


    http://www.weinproducts.com/fitseal-facemask.htm

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    A dust mask can only do so much. They need respirators. And even then, there will still be.... ummm... issues.

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    Beijing vs. Dehli

    “It’s always puzzled me that the focus is always on China and not India,” said Dr. Angel Hsu, director of the environmental performance measurement program at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. “China has realized that it can’t hide behind its usual opacity, whereas India gets no pressure to release better data. So there simply isn’t good public data on India like there is for China.”

    Beijing’s Bad Air Would Be Step Up for Smoggy Delhi
    By GARDINER HARRIS JAN. 25, 2014


    People made a fire in New Delhi to keep warm on Friday, one of many sources of pollution that makes the city’s air among the world’s worst. Sami Siva for The New York Times

    NEW DELHI — In mid-January, air pollution in Beijing was so bad that the government issued urgent health warnings and closed four major highways, prompting the panicked buying of air filters and donning of face masks. But in New Delhi, where pea-soup smog created what was by some measurements even more dangerous air, there were few signs of alarm in the country’s boisterous news media, or on its effervescent Twittersphere.

    Despite Beijing’s widespread reputation of having some of the most polluted air of any major city in the world, an examination of daily pollution figures collected from both cities suggests that New Delhi’s air is more laden with dangerous small particles of pollution, more often, than Beijing’s. Lately, a very bad air day in Beijing is about an average one in New Delhi.

    The United States Embassy in Beijing sent out warnings in mid-January, when a measure of harmful fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 went above 500, in the upper reaches of the measurement scale, for the first time this year. This refers to particulate matter less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, which is believed to pose the greatest health risk because it penetrates deeply into lungs.

    But for the first three weeks of this year, New Delhi’s average daily peak reading of fine particulate matter from Punjabi Bagh, a monitor whose readings are often below those of other city and independent monitors, was 473, more than twice as high as the average of 227 in Beijing. By the time pollution breached 500 in Beijing for the first time on the night of Jan. 15, Delhi had already had eight such days. Indeed, only once in three weeks did New Delhi’s daily peak value of fine particles fall below 300, a level more than 12 times the exposure limit recommended by the World Health Organization.

    “It’s always puzzled me that the focus is always on China and not India,” said Dr. Angel Hsu, director of the environmental performance measurement program at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. “China has realized that it can’t hide behind its usual opacity, whereas India gets no pressure to release better data. So there simply isn’t good public data on India like there is for China.”

    Experts have long known that India’s air is among the worst in the world. A recent analysis by Yale researchers found that seven of the 10 countries with the worst air pollution exposures are in South Asia. And evidence is mounting that Indians pay a higher price for air pollution than almost anyone. A recent study showed that Indians have the world’s weakest lungs, with far less capacity than Chinese lungs. Researchers are beginning to suspect that India’s unusual mix of polluted air, poor sanitation and contaminated water may make the country among the most dangerous in the world for lungs.

    India has the world’s highest death rate because of chronic respiratory diseases, and it has more deaths from asthma than any other nation, according to the World Health Organization. A recent study found that half of all visits to doctors in India are for respiratory problems, according to Sundeep Salvi, director of the Chest Research Foundation in Pune.

    Clean Air Asia, an advocacy group, found that another common measure of pollution known as PM10, for particulate matter less than 10 micrometers in diameter, averaged 117 in Beijing in a six-month period in 2011. In New Delhi, the Center for Science and Environment used government data and found that an average measure of PM10 in 2011 was 281, nearly two-and-a-half times higher.

    Perhaps most worrisome, Delhi’s peak daily fine particle pollution levels are 44 percent higher this year than they were last year, when they averaged 328 over the first three weeks of the year. Fine particle pollution has been strongly linked with premature death, heart attacks, strokes and heart failure. In October, the World Health Organization declared that it caused lung cancer.


    BREATHLESS Amanat Devi Jain, 4, receives twice-daily breathing treatments for her asthma. Her father said the family breathed normally whenever they left India. Graham Crouch for The New York Times

    The United States Embassy in Beijing posts on Twitter the readings of its air monitor, helping to spur awareness of the problem. The readings have more than 35,000 followers. The United States does not release similar readings from its New Delhi Embassy, saying the Indian government releases its own figures.

    In China, concerns about air quality have transfixed many urban residents, and some government officials say curbing the pollution is a priority.

    But in India, Delhi’s newly elected regional government did not mention air pollution among its 18 priorities, and India’s environment minister quit in December amid widespread criticism that she was delaying crucial industrial projects. Her replacement, the government’s petroleum minister, almost immediately approved several projects that could add considerably to pollution. India and China strenuously resisted pollution limits in global climate talks in Warsaw in November.

    Frank Hammes, chief executive of IQAir, a Swiss-based maker of air filters, said his company’s sales were hundreds of times higher in China than in India.

    “In China, people are extremely concerned about the air, especially around small children,” Mr. Hammes said. “Why there’s not the same concern in India is puzzling.”

    In multiple interviews, Delhiites expressed a mixture of unawareness and despair about the city’s pollution levels. “I don’t think pollution is a major concern for Delhi,” said Akanksha Singh, a 20-year-old engineering student who lives on Delhi’s outskirts in Ghaziabad, adding that he felt that Delhi’s pollution problems were not nearly as bad as those of surrounding towns.


    A smoggy New Delhi. Sami Siva for The New York Times

    In 1998, India’s Supreme Court ordered that Delhi’s taxis, three-wheelers and buses be converted to compressed natural gas, but the resulting improvements in air quality were short-lived as cars flooded the roads. In the 1970s, Delhi had about 800,000 vehicles; now it has 7.5 million, with 1,400 more added daily.

    “Now the air is far worse than it ever was,” said Anumita Roy Chowdhury, executive director of the Center for Science and Environment.

    Indians’ relatively poor lung function has long been recognized, but researchers assumed for years that the difference was genetic.

    Then a 2010 study found that the children of Indian immigrants who were born and raised in the United States had far better lung function than those born and raised in India.

    “It’s not genetics; it’s mostly the environment,” said Dr. MyLinh Duong, an assistant professor of respirology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

    In a study published in October, Dr. Duong compared lung tests taken in 38,517 healthy nonsmokers from 17 countries who were matched by height, age and sex. Indians’ lung function was by far the lowest among those tested.

    All of this has led some wealthy Indians to consider leaving.

    Annat Jain, a private equity investor who returned to India in 2001 after spending 12 years in the United States, said his father died last year of heart failure worsened by breathing problems. Now his 4-year-old daughter must be given twice-daily breathing treatments.

    “But whenever we leave the country, everyone goes back to breathing normally,” he said. “It’s something my wife and I talk about constantly.”

    Malavika Vyawahare contributed reporting from New Delhi, and Edward Wong from Beijing.
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    more funky water

    actually, it's kinda pretty...

    Spotted: Another bizarrely blue river appears in Jinan



    Another day, another polluted, bright blue river. A river in Jinan, Shandong province has turned a very unnatural shade of blue and this is not the first time it's happened, according to the residents.

    The Jinan drainage management service center director Jiang Xiangdong said that the bizarre coloring comes from a nearby dormitory's sewage that was discharged into a rain flood ditch and carried through a moat into the river.



    According to the reports, the entrance of the moat's south gate bridge has been closed, and officials are now using a sewage pump to remove the discharge.

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    Looks cool. Can't smell that good though.

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    WTF?

    That's gotta be photoshopped......

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    smog-free domes

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    Must...post....here

    The lead pic nailed it.
    Face Masks on Peking University Statues Protest Beijing Smog
    by Bing on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 56 comments

    Images of statues of some Chinese intellectuals in Peking University wearing masks have been wildly circulated online. This idea was figured out by some students from Peking University, as a “silent” protest against heavy smog.



    From Sina Weibo:

    @头条新闻: Beijing Heavy Smog; Peking University Statues “Wear” Face Masks — Since February 20, the national meteorological center has for six days straight issued smog alert, and Beijing has already spent many days in the grey smog. With continuous smog in the “rain” season, pedestrians on the road are about to be overwhelmed with sorrow. With such pollution, even the statues an sculptures in Peking University “cannot take it anymore”, one after another donning face masks. Pictures: http://t.cn/8Fm7koR

    From QQ & NetEase :
    Beijing Severe Smog; Face Masks Put on Statues Throughout Peking University

    [February] 24, Beijing, the fourth day of heavy smog besieging [the city], it is no longer news that pedestrians and even pet dogs are wearing face masks. To their surprise, on the Peking University campus, people discovered statues of Cai Yuanpei, Li Dazhao, Miguel de Cervantes and other scholars of the past with masks also put on them.


    Beijing severe smog, face masks placed on statues and busts in Peking University. Picture is of Li Dazhao’s statue.


    Picture is Cai Yuanpei’s statue.


    Picture is Cervantes’s statue.


    Picture is of the statue of distinguished Chinese contemporary economist Chen Daisun.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GeneChing View Post
    The lead pic nailed it.
    Word.

    The whole dome thing is interesting. If you think about it, it's a likely future for humanity as a whole. By the time we are ready to start colonizing other planets, we'll have the whole biodome thing down from screwing up our own planet. We'll just consume and consume and consume...

    Does anyone else think that going all out on the tech angle is the only realistic answer? We should minimize our impact, but there will always be that percentage that just won't pitch in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Syn7 View Post
    Word.

    The whole dome thing is interesting. If you think about it, it's a likely future for humanity as a whole. By the time we are ready to start colonizing other planets, we'll have the whole biodome thing down from screwing up our own planet. We'll just consume and consume and consume...

    Does anyone else think that going all out on the tech angle is the only realistic answer? We should minimize our impact, but there will always be that percentage that just won't pitch in.
    As long as you aren't stuck with Pauley Shore in the bio dome you should be fine

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