From New York Post:
China last week became the world’s biggest air polluter, according to a Dutch government-funded environmental watchdog. The People’s Republic now out-belches the United States as the world’s largest producer of greenhouse gases – two years ahead of predictions.
Worse yet, thanks to prevailing wind patterns, a lot of China’s pollution ends up here: As much as 40 percent of the air pollution our own West Coast states breathe originates in China.
The air’s so bad in Beijing, it’s rumored that some teams are making plans to do last minute training tune-ups for the 2008 Olympics in Asia, but outside China, so they can acclimate to Beijing’s time zone while avoiding the smog as long as possible. [Full Text]
Peter Brookes, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, is a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
