Air Pollution from Asia Affecting World's Weather

22/01/14
Author: 
Yuan Wang
Satellite photo shows huge air pollution clouds

Extreme air pollution in Asia is affecting the world's weather and climate patterns, according to a study by Texas A&M University and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers.

......Yuan Wang, a former doctoral student at Texas A&M, along with Texas A&M atmospheric sciences professors Renyi Zhang and R. Saravanan, have had their findings published in the current issue of Nature Communications.

(And see a Globe and Mail article here on what this Nature Communications study reveals about air pollution in British Columbia drifting across the Pacific Ocean from Asia. In other words, BC does not escape the consequences of the emissions from the coal that it sells or exports to Asia.)

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