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alexz commented on the word airpocalypse
refers to Beijing China's air pollution problem
December 17, 2014
scarequotes commented on the word airpocalypse
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39279500
They say this could threaten the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 which will take place across a large geographical area. In their view it poses a greater threat to these future games, than dirty air did to the summer games in 2008.
"Had the Chinese government not reduced emissions as much as they did in the last four years we would have seen the same or worse airpocalypse events," said Prof Wang.
March 16, 2017