Last month, environmental authorities in Beijing have accused the US embassy of "hype" after its widely-publicized measurements of air quality in the Chinese capital sparked concern.
"I'm not clear about their way and methods of monitoring or how they ensure the accuracy," said Du Shaozhong, spokesman for the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, according to the Beijing Times.
"But I feel their way of releasing (the data) is more like hype, and not a very serious attitude toward research."
The last 48 hours, the air quality in Beijing according to the US Embassy's reading has see-sawed between
Very Unhealthy to
Hazardous, with one
Crazy Bad (
Beyond Index) reading on Sunday. See
http://twitter.com/#!/BeijingAir.
Melissa Chan of Al Jazeera illustrated the current air quality in Beijing and Vermont with a
photographic comparison on Twitter last month.
Greenpeace East Asia has put together real-time apps, Twitter tracking air quality levels in different Chinese cities to "help you closely monitor the skies (and know to stay indoors on those 'crazy bad' days)." Check them out
here.
Today, we saw the amateur video of what Beijing’s streets looked like yesterday morning, December 4 via WSJ's China Real Time Report:
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