Olympic trials: The air up there

Beijing skies vary days before Olympics 1

Monday: Taken from a Beijing apartment on Aug. 4:

Beijing 8.4.08

Tuesday: Proving that the weather and pollution levels are completely unpredictable, the weather of Aug. 5 was sunny and clear:

CCTV Beijing 8.5.08

A silver lining to all this pollution pandemonium? After the Olympic games China will start to monitor two pollutants not currently figured into the Air Pollution Index: ozone and small particulate matter PM2.5.

And James Fallows of the Atlantic reports that at least one of the new four subway lines in Beijing works smoothly.

Sara Barz is a writer based in Seattle.

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  1. amazingdrx Posted 12:48 am
    06 Aug 2008

    I wonderIf big environmental orgs have ads ready to run during the Olympics?  The masks on the athletes should have had eco-campaign slogans on them.
    But the big orgs are too busy opposing offshore wind and lobbying for "clean" coal and nuclear power maybe?  That's my guess.
    I hope at least that indiviual donations are supporting expensive junkets for NRDC and other orgs leadership anyway.  Why should these people pay their own way as they spew carbon on gold plated vacations?

    http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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