China is polluting Mt.Fuji, claims Japan study

[onionkiller]

China is 'polluting' Mt. Fuji, claims
Japan study
October 06, 2013 - Updated 751 PKT
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TOKYO: A Japanese study is
claiming that toxic air pollution
from China is to blame for high
mercury levels atop the country's
beloved Mount Fuji.
The research will likely do little to
help simmering hostilities between
the Asian giants, a relationship
marred by historical animosities and
territorial disputes.
"Whenever readings were high,
winds were blowing from the
continent (China)," Osamu
Nagafuchi, the lead scientist on the
study, told AFP on Thursday.
Fuji was chosen "because it's a place
unaffected by urban pollution", said
Nagafuchi, an environmental science
professor at the University of Shiga
Prefecture.
Pollution levels on Mt. Fuji have
been monitored annually since 2007,
he said, adding the decision to carry
out the study on the 3,776-metre
(12,389-feet) peak had nothing to do
with it being designated a UNESCO
World Heritage site earlier this year.
The UNESCO designation led to a
surge in visitors to the iconic peak --
which figures heavily in Japanese art
and literature -- during this
summer's climbing season.
Mercury levels around the top of
peak were up to double levels found
in other places free of heavy
pollution, according to the survey,
conducted in August with non-profit
group Valid Utilization of Mt. Fuji
Weather Station.
The levels were as high as 2.8
nanogrammes of mercury in one
cubic metre of air.
That is above levels around 1.0 to
1.5 nanogrammes normally detected
in clean places, but still below the
40 nanogramme government
threshold for posing risks to human
health. A nanogramme is one
billionth of a gramme.
The higher-than-expected readings
are likely due to Chinese factories
burning coal, which releases mercury
and other toxic elements -- such as
arsenic -- which were also elevated,
Nagafuchi said.
The study comes as fast-
industrialising China wrestles with a
severe urban air pollution problem
linked to hundreds of thousands of
premature deaths.
Last month, China vowed to reduce
levels of atmospheric pollutants in
Beijing and other major cities by as
much as 25 percent to try to improve
their dire air quality.

source news.com.pk

 

[Masters]

@Oscar @nuclearpak please close this anti/China troll thread.

 

[xunzi]

Stop ******* pollute us with radiation then.

 

[S10]

Gotta give it to the Japanese. They worry about pollution in China while they got that Fukushima thing spreading radiation to thee entire Pacific region daily. I think I'll pick dirty air over alpha, beta and gamma radiation.

 

[chhota bheem]

Gotta give it to the Japanese. They worry about pollution in China while they got that Fukushima thing spreading radiation to thee entire Pacific region daily. I think I'll pick dirty air over alpha, beta and gamma radiation.

What logic is this???? Fukushima is an accident ,cannt compare both.

 

[onionkiller]

@Oscar @nuclearpak please close this anti/China troll thread.

this is not troll thread.

 

[S10]

What logic is this???? Fukushima is an accident ,cannt compare both.

The logic is Japan has a much more immediate concern in the form of Fukushima than air pollution. Last time I checked, nuclear radiation kills many times faster. The sloppy job the Japanese are doing to handle the situation is damn near criminal negligence, and leaking hundreds of tons of radioactive water into the sea daily is certainly no accident.

 

[Kolaps]

It's more like anti-China propaganda.

Before China rise decades ago, Japanese will not dare to say it was because of the West.

Japanese also don't want to say, their pollution polluting China during their industrial rise and economy bomb decades ago.


I always said in other forum...

If the Fukushima happened in China, not in Japan, I believe Japanese will use it as propaganda to bitching China.

Japanese will ***** it loudly everyday until your ears turn red and your brain blow.

It's Japanese attitude that ruined Japan-China relationship.


Taiwanese?

Taiwanese is a lowly shameless people worshiping Japanese, out of the topic...

 

[cirr]

Japs nuclear leak is polluting the whole of Northeast Asia。