Even China’s State News Agency Thinks the Pollution “Doomsday” Has Arrived

Pollution levels in northeast China are breaking records . In fact , the air timber being recored in the city of Shenyangis 50 times what the World Health Organization ( WHO ) enunciate is safefor respiration . China ’s state newsworthiness agency is comparing conditions to the end of the Earth .

Smog admonition have been more and more damnatory over the past twosome of days , and official say the smog wo n’t lift until the end of the week . Visibility in the affected areasis down to a few dozen fundament , and levels of fine particulate matter ( PM2.5 ) are through the cap . WHO says PM2.5 levels over 25 mcg per three-dimensional meter can be hazardous to your health . The Formosan governance ’s standard is slightly looser at 35 micrograms per three-dimensional metre . Readings in Shenyang this week are spike out at 1,400 micrograms per cubic cadence .

People are justifiably implicated . match out this tweet from China ’s state news agency :

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Fairyland or day of reckoning ? Heaviest#smogthis yr winding-clothes NE Chinese city of Shenyang , PM 2.5 reach over 1400pic.twitter.com/GLo82Abk4R

— China Xinhua News ( @XHNews)November 9 , 2015

Doomsday ? ! It certainly seems like it , since that one bozo is fatigue a blasted gas mask while riding his BMX bike . The contamination levels are so awful that government officials are warning those with respiratory problems to stay at bottom . Greenpeace nominee Dong Liansaitold the insistence , “ As far as we are cognisant from the data we have been observing over the past few twelvemonth , this is the highest ever PM2.5 level recording . ”

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What incisively caused the ear is a little bit shadowy . Some blame the befoulment on the come winter :

Dense#smogblankets#BeijingTue , as homes turn on heating . Environmental authorities say smog will last until Fripic.twitter.com/icfryT2UR5

— CGTN ( @CGTNOfficial)November 10 , 2015

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This is not a bad theory , since similar eventshappened last yearandthe year before . Nevertheless , the new high is another reminder that China ’s defilement problem is not only destructive but also worsening . The land say its pollutionwill peak in 2030 . What happens between now and then is a scary thought , especially considering this twelvemonth ’s especially thick cover of smogginess .

You eff it ’s really bad when mass attend sporting event in respirators . Here ’s a brave human beings at the China Open last month :

Believe it or not , the pollution levels were pretty good then compared to now .

Photo: Jae C. Hong