Monday was a nasty day here in Shanghai. As the Shanghai Daily news called it, "foggy weather" grounded more than 70 flights when visibility dropped to less than 400 meters. Fog my eye - inhalable particulates as they call pollution here rose more than seven times the normal rate on Sunday and Monday.
The "fog" is the result of particles adhering to water molecules in the air when there is high humidity - all the better to see the nasty little bits of sulphur and other noxious chemicals that I'm inhaling most days though to be honest I have not noticed any real change in my breathing or lung capacity since we've been here.
My guess is if you were born here in the last ten years and stay here, your lungs will definitely be impacted by what's happening here. For those of us lucky to have been born in North America we should be very thankful for the clean air we get to breathe every day and do all we can to insure it stays that way.
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