The Pollution Map of Beijing
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In Beijing this summer but worried about the smog? Want to know when it's safe to go outdoors without a facemask? Richard Spencer points us to a useful tool.
The Pollution Map of Beijing (linked in Spencer's blog) is a collaborative project between the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau and CERC (Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants) and gives a day-to-day forecast of pollution levels in the capital.
Of course, the scale has to be taken slightly into context for the average user, as the blue 'good' level of pollution still fails WHO standards. Green means 'slightly polluted', which doesn't sound too bad - until you realised that it means it has failed even the government's own definition of acceptability and may effect people with 'heart or pulmonary conditions', like asthma.
Now where's my oxygen tank...
The Pollution Map of Beijing (linked in Spencer's blog) is a collaborative project between the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau and CERC (Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants) and gives a day-to-day forecast of pollution levels in the capital.
Of course, the scale has to be taken slightly into context for the average user, as the blue 'good' level of pollution still fails WHO standards. Green means 'slightly polluted', which doesn't sound too bad - until you realised that it means it has failed even the government's own definition of acceptability and may effect people with 'heart or pulmonary conditions', like asthma.
Now where's my oxygen tank...
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