China's "new math"
Posted: August 6th, 2008, 4:14 am
I always heard that fog + smoke = smog.
In China, it equals mist.
It is a "feature .... of evaporation and humidity". Now, y'all, I don't know about you but I always thought evaporation and humidity worked against each other. One makes dry, one makes wet. I've never known them to actually compound against one another into mist. I have, as a lifelong resident of the south, frequently seen humidity trump evaporation: we call that rain; and, I've seen humidity yield to evaporation after a summer rain or an early spring dew. We call that fog, though, not mist. What the source of the humidity X evaporation = mist is in China, the IOC is not saying. Neither, strangely, is the Weather Channel, given its predilection to hype environmental issues. But, again, this is China math, and so I reckon China weather and China environmentalism are just as odd.
And, it is a mighty strange curiosity why China is firing "anti-smog" pellets into the air to fight this non-smog mist. Must just be a national courtesy or some other typically China Communist nicety.
In China, it equals mist.
It is a "feature .... of evaporation and humidity". Now, y'all, I don't know about you but I always thought evaporation and humidity worked against each other. One makes dry, one makes wet. I've never known them to actually compound against one another into mist. I have, as a lifelong resident of the south, frequently seen humidity trump evaporation: we call that rain; and, I've seen humidity yield to evaporation after a summer rain or an early spring dew. We call that fog, though, not mist. What the source of the humidity X evaporation = mist is in China, the IOC is not saying. Neither, strangely, is the Weather Channel, given its predilection to hype environmental issues. But, again, this is China math, and so I reckon China weather and China environmentalism are just as odd.
And, it is a mighty strange curiosity why China is firing "anti-smog" pellets into the air to fight this non-smog mist. Must just be a national courtesy or some other typically China Communist nicety.