Only one day before the opening ceremonies and we are aswim in a murky soup of grey mist so familiar to Beijingers. It’s definitely not just the weather either. After breaching 100, the API has been stuck mysteriously just below the 100 line (see here for our previous examination of the strange stickiness of the API index at that level and other concerns about those numbers) that would official make Beijing’s air “lighlty polluted” by Beijing’s standards. (For what it’s worth, the government of Hong Kong, which I believe is part of China, calls anything above 100 a “very high” level of pollution. See here) Anyway, here’s a shot from the trusty TIME Beijing bureaucam:
