does any body have any information about china painting a mountain green?

Question

i heard that china painted a mountain green, so i looked it up and didnt get the gratest results. but when i told people they didnt believe me. including my teacher. so any information would be appreciated.

Answer 1

having lived in china for 3 years I'm not surprised. this is what I found.

The Associated Press and various other world news organizations are enthusiastically reporting the ecological debacle in China's southwestern Yunnan province. Laoshou Mountain, a once green and majestic presence on the Chinese horizon, had become barren and defaced from twenty years of strip-mining. In a stunning move by apparently high offices of the Chinese government, the mountain has received a new green hue, albeit an unnatural and unhealthy one.

The frightening neon green color emanating from the massive mountainside crater speaks more of nuclear waste than of living plants. In a still unfathomable decision, China had workers spray-paint the indented portion of the mountain at an estimated cost of 60,000 dollars (US), according to Xinhua News Agency, who quoted local residents complaining of paint fumes and saying that the money could have been better used to buy actual plants.

China, in its usual form, is not answering questions concerning the reasoning behind their latest baffling project. All attempts by the western media to contact government officials have been met by unnamed secretaries with curt responses that decisions were made higher up and no comment will be given. Speculations center on two major theories, the first that the officials in Fumin County, whose main office building faces the newly painted mountain, were making an attempt to adjust the feng-shue of the area, or the energy flow resulting from the composition of an area. Various sources point to a Mr. Du, a businessman who made considerable profit from the strip-mining of the mountain, as the primary responsible party.

The second theory is that the Chinese government has made a farcical and short-sighted attempt to "green" an area. This toxic and appalling attempt at an environmental bandage has many ecologists and wildlife groups criticizing the Chinese government, and has most of the world laughing. The news has been positioned in "news of the weird" columns across the board and was recently featured in a National Public Radio segment wherein a contestant had to pick one real absurd news story from a group of absurd fake news stories.

When workers began painting the mountain last August, local residents became puzzled. The government had recently closed the mountain quarry, due to complaints from nearby residents about the dust and the noise. Some villagers assumed that the work crews were reforesting. But as the perplexing project moved along and the fumes began to drift, locals knew something was wrong. Workers, when questioned, said that they were not given a reason for their task, only the order to complete it.

China will most likely remain silent on the matter, keeping with a longstanding tradition of silence regarding mistakes and embarrassments. For now we can file this as one of the stranger and larger bureaucratic mishaps of our history.

Sources used:

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070214.wchinamount0214/BNStory/

www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2016816,00.html

www.gokunming.com/en/blog/category.php?category_id=12

Answer 2

The Alpine tree line was 300 feet higher than today for 3 separate multi-century periods since the last Ice Age, strong evidence that it was WARMER than it is today.

Al Gore won't tell you that though....