Chinese trying to fix their weather before Olympics
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Apparently the world's worries about the Chinese environmental situation and how smog might affect the lungs of athletes at the planned Beijing Olympics have forced the Chinese into radical measures. Beijing is plagued by smog, caused by emissions from industrial plants, cars, construction, and people's stoves burning wood or coal. (See our coverage of athletes' concerns about smog and food supply, here, here and here.) The new Chinese idea for how to fix the smog problem: seed clouds with silver iodide or dry ice to try to provide at least a couple sunny days during the Olympics. (Smog can apparently look really bad on camera. Downer!) There's an article in the latest Plenty magazine, here, with plenty of juicy details about the pseudoscience that's behind these drastic weather modification efforts.
All of this has me thinking: if people are boycotting the Beijing Olympics because of human rights offenses or because of China's involvement in Darfur, should environmentalists be boycotting on environmental grounds? I'm just going to boycott on general principle and cover all my bases.
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