Comments on: Today’s Beautiful Shanghai Skyline

By: Miguel Correia

Miguel Correia — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:01:19 +0000

# 16, would they consider it CAVOK?

By: The0ne

The0ne — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:50:03 +0000

Most of you are battering China because of this? Pretty hateful imo. We do have the same pollution here. When I went up to Pomona (20miles east of LA) for college and went outside to jog I literally choked. The air was so bad for me I had to stopped myself from exercising outside. Of course, one gets use to the pollution after being there for a few years. That in itself is bad.

Without detracting too much, we have cities here just as bad. You can’t see LA on most days. Heck, I couldn’t even see the mountains right in the back of my college apartment on a bad day. All you see is this brown layered dust. Of course having the dumpsite hidden in the mountain didn’t help either. All those burned ashes falling from the mountain…yea, nice planning there alright.

By: ZZman

ZZman — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:01:54 +0000

It looks like the photo was taken from the Kerry Center roof around 6AM. It‘s the morning mist really, around 9AM it’s gone.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:20:58 +0000

I live in Shanghai, and it is usually not this polluted. This is an odd picture because of the angle of the light.

Also, I can’t figure out where in Shanghai this was taken!

By: RMichael

RMichael — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:48:50 +0000

Hey Cincinnati looks like this in the summer when you get that big Bermuda high pressure sitting in the Atlantic. It always looks worse into the sun.

I’ve been here in Shanghai for a couple of months, and although there are some awful days, I’ve been surprised at how nice it can be when the cold fronts blow through, which they have been doing more and more as we get closer to winter.

By: jescott418

jescott418 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:29:07 +0000

Corporate China done cheap. This is how you take over consumer markets and don’t think about the ramifications of mass production.
I guess it’s going to be a question of when China will self destruct?
Makes me feel a little better about American (but just a little).

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:00:14 +0000

Have you seen the 2008 movie The day the earth stood still? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/

Keanu Reeves is an actor that plays an alien who plays a white man. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanu_Reeves

Jennifer Connelly is an actress who “represents” a whitewoman. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Connelly

Jaden Smith is an actor who plays the young Barack Obama. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1535523/

The earth’s featherless biped population is 6 Billion.
The U.S. is 300 million with 50 million illegals.

When keanu said to Jennifer the earth dies you die. If you die the earth lives… Well I can not say more because I am sure I would be censored.

By: Ah_Yea

Ah_Yea — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:27:12 +0000

Cancer is slated to be the world’s #1 killer within the next two years.

Wonder why???

By: BubbaRay

BubbaRay — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:03:41 +0000

Nothing like IFR conditions under a clear blue sky. Jeez!

By: brendal

brendal — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:43:00 +0000

How do they monitor people with all that crap in the air? Must be tough – we should import their spy equipment!

By: Somebody_Else

Somebody_Else — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:52:35 +0000

Cripes, that’s nasty.

By: brm

brm — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:29:49 +0000

This is a cycle. Industrial revolutions create pollution. It will go away, just like it did in London, just like it did here.

By: Health and Wealth

Health and Wealth — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:39:22 +0000

I guess we exported our pollution elsewhere
They can get sick of respiratory diseases and worse while we here in America can continue to play RockBand

By: Ah_Yea

Ah_Yea — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:00:16 +0000

Just one more comment.

On my previous visit, when I was leaving the Beijing airport (about 3 months before the Olympics) the smog was so bad you literally could not see the end of the runway. And this was at 3:00 in the afternoon.

By: Ah_Yea

Ah_Yea — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:56:33 +0000

Additionally, that picture itself is a testament to how much China has improved.

When I started going over there a couple of years ago, the smog was so bad that it was a rare day when you could see half a mile.

In this picture, you can clearly see blue sky and that building in the far right background, something that never happened even just a year ago.

I’m not saying it’s good there, just better.