December 18, 2006
Beijing is dirtiest city in Asia
Despite our recent red fog alert, Shanghai can not crack the top five in the rankings of the major Asian cities with the dirtiest air. Here's the top/bottom five:
- Beijing
- Xi'an
- Kathmandu
- Dhaka
- New Delhi
Air pollution in these cities is five to six times as high as levels that the World Health Organization considers safe and at least three times as high as levels in the largest European and American cities.
The list was compiled by the Asian Development Bank and presented at the Better Air Quality conference in Yogyakarta, Indonesia last week. We haven't seen the full rankings so we don't know where Shanghai ranks, but our money is on the top 10.
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China likes to be first, let's give a hand for the middle kingdom! And China's first truly imperial capital snatched the silver from the Indian upstarts!
Here's another great contribution from the Inventors of Everything, the world's fastest time to take a species from thriving to extinct:
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2083841.ece
Let's here it for the guardians of heaven everyone, all of us barbarians can only hope to accomplish such feats of greatness!!!!!!
I have recently been to both Beijing and New Delhi. There is no fucking way that the air quality of any place in Asia is any worse that Delhi's. I'm sorry. Delhi is foul in a way I found it hard to even imagine. Beijing is just massively polluted
While New Delhi may be the "smelliest", and once was the dirtiest, the city has taken aggressive steps to reduce pollution (including the use of CNG vehicles) and left Beijing atop the dust heap.
The rankings for particulate pollution (soot, dust, fine particles), which is most associated with respiratory problems and premature death, are as follows: Beijing, Kathmandu, Dhaka, New Delhi, Calcutta, and Shanghai.
Congratulations.
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I'VE BEEN TO DELHI,BEIJING AND MUMBAI THOUGH I LIVE IN X'IAN,PRC IT IS TOUGH TO ADMIT THAT DELHI,THE DAMN INDIAN CAPITAL HAVE FAR MORE NUMBER OF CNG VEHICLES THAN ALL THE CITIES OF CHINA COMBINED.