A large part of Beijing's problem is that it's a massive city that's completely land locked. If you look at nearly all major cities of that size, they're by water so the winds can take away the pollution. There's about 20 million people in Beijing, and New York City, America's most populated city, has 8.5 million and is on a coast. Major urban centers don't work very well when they are land locked, at least when they're Asian super-city sized.
If the jet stream moves and doesn't bring the winds they need, like what happens with an El Nino in the US, the pollution is not swept away and just sits in the city.
[–] KinkRaven 9 points 7 points 16 points (+16|-9) ago (edited ago)
That's environmental pollution issues, not climate change.
Also China is completely responsible for that. It has nothing to do with rising tempatures or changes to climate. (which also don't seem to be happening, hence its climate change now not global warming).
They just pollute the fuck out of their cities, that isn't caused by climate change. It comes from having a shitty single party government system.
[–] CatNamedJava 4 points 1 point 5 points (+5|-4) ago
Beijing is suffering greatly from climate change as the area is suffering from desertification and drought.
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[–] ChaseWegman [S] 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Hahahaha you don't know how to read graphs, you just trust others to do it for you. You should bother to read the data and understand it.
[–] Goatburger 3 points 5 points 8 points (+8|-3) ago
I love they always say "denial" like it's a religion. "YOU MUST BELIEVE HERETIC". And anyway, climate change may or may not be real. The actual question should be "are humans causing it".
[–] SillySnoot ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWXoRSIxyIU
Veritasium covers the misconceptions pretty well.