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Michaelangelica
Well anywhere you can put a plant
I wonder what the pollution would be like in Beijing Olympics if they had imported a billion plants into the city?
Thousands of huge trees were planted for the Sydney Olympics
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It looks like they could use a plant or two,
but at lest they are trying to keep the smog down for the Olympics,
a rather tall order I would think!
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Breathing in Beijing: An Emergency Anti-Smog Plan, Rainmaking, and New Words for Pollution
After over a week of mixed pollution, Beijing today outlined emergency measures for fighting smog during the Olympics, potentially expanding what is already the world's grandest pollution experiment. Under "extremely unfavorable weather conditions," like hot, humid air without the winds needed to disperse pollution, the government may enact further restrictions on factories and cars in Beijing and the nearby city of Tianjin as well as surrounding Hebei Province -- in total a region of more than 91 million people.
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The past few days have seen pollution levels drop dramatically from earlier in the week, due largely to heavy evening rainfalls. It's unknown how much cloudseeding the government has been doing these days, but as a friend speculated after seeing a police motorcade speed along the second ring road last night just after a thunderstorm, "the officials were coming back from Chongping, where they had probably just satisfied themselves by shooting the hell out of the sky."
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Breathing in Beijing: An Emergency Anti-Smog Plan, Rainmaking, and New Words for Pollution : TreeHugger
Here is a artical on the cloud seeding in and around Beijing.
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Blame it on the Sand: Beijing's Fake Rain
While many countries have seeded clouds since the 1950s, China’s recently become the self-proclaimed world leader in counterfeit rain, which, at a cost of $266 million over a decade it has used to stem drought, fight forest fires and now relieve the capital of its pollution. What all the cloud-seeding rockets cannot help of course is the real problem: poor land and water management in the north, where excessive farming and grazing, bad irrigation, and deforestation continue to loosen top soil, expose sand, and expand the Gobi desert.
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Blame it on the Sand: Beijing's Fake Rain : TreeHugger
I have a question, just how much precipitation can you get? and if you make it rain here, are you depriving someplace inland of rain?
