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Beijing’s pollution index hits its highest measurement level Friday and authorities warned people to stay indoors as a murky grey haze settled over the Chinese capital.

The Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau said pollution had hit the heaviest level on the one-to-five scale five during the 24-hour period from noon Thursday. “The city is experiening weather that is not beneficial to dispersing pollutants, so the city’s emissions continue to concentrate creating a thick haze of pollution,” it said on its website.

“Even under conditions of light winds, changes in temperature, high humidity and fog, the situation has only worsened.”

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
By using a coupled climate and carbon cycle model to look at global climate and carbon cycle changes, the scientists found that the earth would warm by 8 degrees Celsius (14.5 degrees Fahrenheit) if humans use the entire planet’s available fossil fuels by the year 2300.

The jump in temperature would have alarming consequences for the polar ice caps and the ocean, said lead author Govindasamy Bala of the Laboratory’s Energy and Environment Directorate.

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I’d like to send thanks from here to geonames.org. Marc’s service is good and fast. Quirks are solved within hours and the data is reliable.

This weekend most things will work, especially the geoLink feature is needed. It drives a lot of functions here and you’ll like it, because it provides a short URL easy to use in mails and as bookmark. To get the big picture enter the map view and see more layers. A click on the grey picture in post title will do the job. (more…)