Beijing Air Could Be “Smog-tastic” For Olympics
The opening ceremony for the Summer Olympics is three days away, which means the Chinese government has less than 72 hours to fix the smog situation in a country plagued by chronic air pollution. According to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Environmental Protection, the smog-control efforts are moving right along and everybody will be able to enjoy a “blue-sky” Olympics.
The thing is, those sentiments are more pipe dream than reality, at least according to the BBC, whose Beijing bureau set up air pollution sensors that tell a different story than the one reported by the government.
