Bangkok Has World’s 3rd Worst Air

[snoop1130]

Bangkok Has World’s 3rd Worst Air

 

 

BANGKOK, Dec 15 (TNA) – Thick PM2.5 dust blanketed Bangkok this morning, giving the capital the third position in the world’s worst air pollution rankings at 7 am. Tuesday.

 

According to the airvisual.com website, the level of accumulated PM2.5 dust in Bangkok and surrounding provinces was higher than that of yesterday despite slight rain in some areas.

 

The Department of Pollution Control said that heavy air pollution from fine dust will continue until Dec 17 due to stagnant air.

 

Full Story: https://tna.mcot.net/english-news/line-today-english-news-600321

 

-- © Copyright TNA 2020-12-15

 

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[Justgrazing]

5 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Bangkok Has World’s 3rd Worst Air

 

On top of the other recent articles about the death toll on the roads not a good tag to be labelled with .. 

[misterjames]

TAT avoid this one ????

[tomazbodner]

Only 2 to overtake. You can do it!

[kotsak]

Be number one!

 

[richard_smith237]

According to my AirVisual Bangkok is currently 32nd.

 

That doesn’t mean the air quality over the past 2-3 days has been good, it certainly hasn’t and the issue needs to be resolved. But reports like this muddy the waters and are inaccurate. 

 

That said - the AQI map would place some areas of Bangkok ‘well up there’ 

 

 

[kotsak]

During the day today..

 

 

https://aqicn.org/station/@81877

Edited December 15, 2020 by kotsak

[Yom]

1 hour ago, kotsak said:

During the day today..

 

Almost nothing to say. Except, this is criminal.

Not only PM2.5  195, not only PM2.5  362.

The whole system, the people who allow or accept this.

We all? 

 

 

 

 

Just had a look/ forecast aqicn.org:

                  

We gotta get out of this place
If it's the last thing we ever do
We gotta get out of this place
'Cause girl, there's a better life for me and you'

Thanks to Eric Burdon and The Animals - More than 50 years ago

 

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Edited December 15, 2020 by Yom

[Hanuman2547]

No surprise at all.

[Venom]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Bangkok Has World’s 3rd Worst Air

No worries, they will achieve No. 1 status by early next year. Should we add hub of toxic 2.5 PM air pollution /smog to the list? ????????

[Antonymous]

Cambodia is showing the way.

 

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has issued a directive to ban people living in rural areas from burning paddy straw and garbage in their fields to reduce air pollution, the Khmer Times reported on Monday.

 

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196826-cambodia-bans-burning-of-rice-straw-garbage-to-reduce-air-pollution

 

Thailand should follow their lead, but seems highly unlikely due to vested interests and apathy. The various Thai agencies with grandiose names tasked with finding solutions to this terrible problem have no teeth.

[newnative]

Hold up. Didn't the Big Guy 'instruct' his ministers to solve this problem some time ago?

[Bkktodd]

Amazing Thailand 

pollution that brings on a host of illnesses and dangerous to the elderly 

 

Highway accidents that kills or causes long term injuries.

 

put the hysteria on a covid that kills far less and impacts the economy and everyday people.   

[richard_smith237]

The AQI is 29 (at the moment) in my area of Bangkok, which is the green: Good Air quality.

The AQI is 51 (at the moment) where my son goes to school, which orange: Moderate Air quality.

 

The worst area around Bangkok at the moment is Samut Sakhon at 184 AQI - unhealthy.

There must be some fires or factories on the outskirts of Bangkok belching stuff out. 

[Isaan sailor]

A big thanks to the country that gave the world COVID-19, dammed the Mekong, and now sends its air pollution southwestward.

[Yom]

1 hour ago, Isaan sailor said:

... now sends its air pollution southwestward.

Dear Isaan sailor,

better wait till the pollution from India might arrive?

This year south of the himalayans there  seems to be

an enormous potential, I think much bigger than our

friends from NE.

But with the dams I'm on your side.

Covid, I don't know...

Stay out of trouble.