How Climate Change Covered China in Smog
Air quality in Beijing has a lot to do with snowstorms in Siberia.
When smog gets bad, the air becomes more than a coolness on your skin or a haze on the horizon. When smog gets bad, you can taste it.
“Today, Shanghai air really has a layered taste. At first, it tastes slightly astringent with some smokiness. Upon full contact with your palate, the aftertaste has some earthy bitterness, and upon careful distinguishing you can even feel some dust-like particulate matter,” Alan Yu, a gourmet chef who lives in Shanghai, told The Telegraph in 2013.
Yu got to know those tastes pretty well. , a Greenland-sized cloud of toxic air pollution smothered the plains of eastern China, shrouding the skylines of China’s largest cities
