Most polluted region in China?

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China Daily reports:

In the Pearl River Delta region, only 22.2 percent of days in October had good air quality. The number in September was 77.6 percent.

Though there was no severe pollution in October, all nine cities in the region had good air quality for fewer than 15 days, according to the report. [...]

The ministry attributed the cause of the severe pollution in the region to the shortage of precipitation and the increase of solar radiation intensity in October.

Nationwide, almost half of the 74 cities mentioned in the report had good air quality in fewer than 15 days in October. The number of such cities was only 19 in September

http://shanghaiist.com/2013/11/20/pearl_river_delta_finally_gets_reco.php

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1. Their economic miracle is killing them

They will have to start exporting high energy use industry if they want to live.

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2. Guangzhu could become the poster city

for climate change, but there's a lot of competition.

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4. No kidding, like Beijing

The air is thick and yellow and you can't see more than 100 or so feet ahead of you on bad days, which now outnumber good days. It reminds me of Pittsburgh in the 50s when people heated with coal along with what the steel mills used. Feh.

Worse, in China the most economical way to heat and cook your food is with blocks of compressed coal dust, probably the absolute filthiest fuel ever.

China is looking into renewable energy sources while it tries to develop thorium reactor technology. They'd better do something soon or there won't be much of a country to save.

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3. Is this a surprise, we are sending our coal over there. They have no environmental

laws, wouldn't it be better we used it here where we have laws?

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5. But that's the point, isn't it

They can't burn the stuff here. We're just sending the pollution where the jobs went.

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6. Exactly, more pollutants are put into the air when they burn it. We do all share the same

atmosphere.