Beijing Is Smoking!

Smokey skies. Photo by jaaron
Angel Hsu, a colleague of mine who travels quite a bit to China to promote the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, an accounting tool used for measuring greenhouse gases, sent me an email today after checking the weather in Beijing on the weather channel, to tell me that a new word has entered the weather lexicon: smoke!





Apparently, Chinese told me that this is the coldest Beijing has been in 5 years, which seems to make our efforts to curb climate change somewhat less convincing.