China officials are trying to ease fears tonight by telling athletes and journalists in the country for the Olympics that the pollution all over around is only 'mist'..

Even more, one of the International Olympic Committee's most senior figures dismissed the yellow-grey haze that periodically hangs over the city as mist, and blamed the media for overstating pollution problems..

Mist.

The mist.. not the Stephen King mist, I hope..

But at least Stephen King's mist was fiction..

The filth hanging in the air in China is very real.

Also interesting today, China actually fired 'anti-smog pellets' into the sky over Beijing--just as an earthquake hit! The 6.0 magnitude earthquake hit the western Chinese provinces of Sichuan and Gansu today..

Mist is mist.. but an earthquake is an earthquake..

And maybe, just maybe, that mist is actually pollution, regardless of what the 'best face forward' Olympic committee may be saying..

PHOTO: ABC NEWS

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