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Pollution from Asia may cause spillover effect
Mongolia News.Net
Saturday 6th September, 2008
Climate scientists have suggested that pollution from Asian power plants, cooking and heating could create summer hot spots in the central United States and southern Europe by the middle of this century.
The warming effect on the climate half a world away could last for decades.
Hiram Levy of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has said: "By 2050, two of the three climate models we use found that changes in short-lived pollutants will contribute 20 percent of the predicted global warming."
By 2100, that figure goes up to 25 percent, he added.
According to Levy, Asian soot and sulfate pollution is likely to make for hotter, drier summers in the American Midwest and the Mediterranean region of southern Europe, adding that heating and drying effects are not expected to hit Asia.
The reason for the expected pollution-related warming trend is that sulfate pollution, which has been linked to respiratory problems, is expected to decrease dramatically while soot pollution is forecast to continue increasing in Asia.
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BobBurns
09-06-08, 07:57 AM |
Pollution from Asia may cause spillover effect
Gas masks for sale cheap. Or you could move to China
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Anonymous
09-06-08, 08:44 AM |
The Future is in our hands
Here is the motivation for change! what happens from here depends on what we do to help clean up our life capsule called earth.. Be a clean air breather :)
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Anonymous
09-06-08, 06:58 PM |
This trend call for coorporation amongst nations instead of building more weapons of mass destruction, agitating for conflicts to weaken competitors, demonizing weak nations to rob their resources. So when is the world leaders and critics, especially those in commanding positions, wake up from their world domination dream?
Don’t tell me their solution is to annihilate all other humankind for their own survival.
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` ~galljdaj+
09-06-08, 09:11 AM |
For eight long long years...
... , these so called scientist have been sitting on their hands and could not find their ass!
Today they have found cooking oil is the problem from Asia!
gREAT lEADERSHIP, BUT YOUR WALKING BACKWARDS!
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