Beijing hit by worst sandstorm

I'm quite sure it is...

Looks gritty.

That's because they have cut down trees on the Tibetan Plateau. It changes the moisture content in the air, and the denuded land cannot hold the soil.

Sandstorms from China hit hard farther until Japan .
On the 8 and 9 of april, the whole country was suffering strong and yellowish winds covering everything with sands... very concerning.

[link to udn.com]

I guess they didn't learn from the US 'Dustbowl' of the last century...

Why are people worried about them as an economic power again?

It's God's way of telling communists," Art thou blind"?

it's from the comet, i bet

go look at a map. not "freak" not comet. beijing sits next to the gobi desert. gobi has been expanding fro hundreds of years. this storm is not odd, but rather normal and we will see more like it in the future

Long way from a 30's Dust Bowl blow out.