Something to Cheer for us. At last China realised the effects of greenhouse but we should first congratulate the Olympics organisers for organising games in china which made China to stop emission of green house gases.....................
james blake
Just fyi,
I hope you realize this change was on the order of 1% (or less) of their total pollution and was only for a few weeks to a month.
It would be interesting to look at the regional/global data and see if a signal of that small change could be picked up; but in terms of a change for the better, I don't think there is anything to cheer about. It's all back to business as usual by now.
And more specifically, you are confusing greenhouse gases with smog-like pollution.
GHG's are invisible and affect the temperature, not breathing or vision.
Soot, other particulates, nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, ozone, polycyclic and non-cyclic hydrocarbons, etc. are the pollutants that affect vision and breathing, and health in general, etc.
CO2 is often produced by the same processes that generate these other pollutants, so cleaning up one often affects the other, but they are different things with different effects.
