I've often not-quite-joked that the @beijingair Twitter account, which was plausibly a key contributor to higher Chinese citizen consciousness of PM2.5 and demands for better Chinese data, was the best piece of US public diplomacy ever in China.
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Dan Westervelt
Big (bad) news: the US Embassy air monitoring program webpage has been taken down: www.airnow.gov/internationa...
This erases ~17 years of a critical data source at ~80 US diplomatic posts around the world. Critically for the health of thousands of foreign services officers, critical for research..
This erases ~17 years of a critical data source at ~80 US diplomatic posts around the world. Critically for the health of thousands of foreign services officers, critical for research..
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(Admittedly I've become used to ≤25 or so)