The smog situation in China is get even worse , with defilement horizontal surface as mellow as 30 times the limits congeal by the World Health Organization . Check out this image taken in late December , 2013by NASA ’s Terra satellite . You ca n’t scantily see anything because of the shite floating in the air . It gets even bad at full size :
So perfect and dangerous . From NASA :
The dull , grey haze obscures almost all the land and much of the coastal waters from view southward and east of the Taihang Mountains . clear airwave traverse the area north of the mountains , although fingers of daze roll through most river valleys . The cities of Beijing and Hebei , both west of the Bohai Sea are accomplished enshroud .
On December 24 the defilement degree reached 30 clock time the limit set by the World Health Organization :
The concentration of PM2.5 , which are o.k. air particulates , were report at 421 mcg per three-dimensional meter at 2 p.m. near Tiananmen Square in Beijing , while horizontal surface were 795 in Xi’an and 740 in Zhengzhou . The World Health Organization ( WHO ) recommends 24 - hour exposure to PM2.5 assiduity no high than 25 micrograms per cubic metre .
The post is getting dramatic thanks to the utilisation of coal in power production and dwelling house :
concord to Michael Greenstone , a Professor of Environmental Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) , [ … ] noted life expectancies were about 5.5 days low in the N , owing to an increase incidence of cardiorespiratory mortality .
as luck would have it , the res publica is make to reduce the contamination . Their plan includes the shutdown of all coal - burning plants by 2017 .
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