It's true. In my town we have sunsets again. We never had them.
Now there are gorgeous sunsets every single day.
A poem and photo, by me 
Smog sunset
No shooting rays
the sun just kind of disappears into a dirty gray smear
then it gets dark
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Looking way better than it did! Hopefully the improvements continue at a rapid pace.
The bad old days. This is in Beijing which is worse because they heated homes with coal stoves which put off a ton of smoke.
Yeah reddit made sure everyone knew how bad it was at the time. Daily. For years.
I think Reddit's huge hard-on for China hate came from (1) CIA ops and (2) desire to have someone even lower than themselves who they could shit on freely. They might be skeezy losers but at least China is worse! This is a badly needed psychological release valve. It's the foundation of racism and is why Dalits exist.
Create dalits so the lower castes don't turn their anger upwards.
Legislating carbon emissions works? But at what cost?
Well they've already started running articles in science magazines that the pollutant particles raise the albedo of the upper atmosphere and actually help reflect light, so by reducing pollution China might actually be causing the planet to heat more!
It's utter bullshit.
This is the 1970s "Global Cooling" and the same as Nuclear Winter. 
I've heard "they used to think we were headed into another ice age!" a global warming denial talking point a few time and it's really fascinating to read historical reporting on the issue.
A key point shown here is that they say they didn't know why the cooling was happening.
It was the soot from pollution, what we today call PM25 that was going to blot out the sun.
The same effect that would cause a nuclear winter as the detonations blasted tons of soil into the stratosphere which would take centuries to fall to earth. Crops would fail from lack of sunlight and lead to mass starvation.
It's featured in the British dystopia movie Threads.
Global Cooling in response to Global Warming is a key point of why Al Gore rebranded it to climate change.
That's very plausible to me I've just never seen the topic discussed with the modern scientific knowledge. Was the cause discovered relatively quickly, and that's why it stopped being reported on? Or was it just counteracted by CO2 driven warming?
I don't remember, it just kind of dropped out of the conversation because it never happened the way they said it was going to. I'd advise looking up the nuclear winter concept if you want to know more. Or just watch Threads, it's terrifying. If you really want to go down a rabbit hole look up 10,000 years ago during the previous Ice Age and wolly mammoths. I got into super prehistory of hominids and it's fascinating, Gobekli Tepe and such. There was also increased CO2 then too which caused the Sahara Desert to bloom. There were rivers and forests. That's why they haven't found much more evidence of early hominids, they aren't digging in the right place. Egypt is great, there are 5 star hotels and everything. Dig in the desert, with all that sand and live in a hot tent? Decline.
Breaking: China Reminds World that Good Things Work and the Future is Ready to roll out, like, Whenever.
When Governance Is Taken Seriously And For The Betterment Of All, It Works
Still pretty bad in the winter, but definitely improving at a rapid pace
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: