Report from 2006-China’s air pollution reaches U.S. skies-Almost Nobody Notices
(AP) — On a mountaintop overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Steven Cliff collects evidence of an industrial revolution taking place thousands of miles away. The tiny, airborne particles Cliff gathers at an air monitoring station just north of San Francisco drifted over the ocean from coal-fired power plants, smelters, dust storms and diesel trucks in China and other Asian countries.
This is a deliberate counterpoint to the rather breathless reportage we see about Japanese radiation from their crisis. The difference being it took a record earthquake, a tsunami and se quence of equipment destruction nobody foresaw.
The pollution from China and Asia is just business as usual. A media yawn.