Sentences with phrase «sulfur aerosol pollution»

Sulfur aerosol pollution, created via coal burning, is skyrocketing in Southeast Asia.

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«It is therefore reasonable to expect that precipitation extremes will continue to intensify,» although how much is still a mystery, largely thanks to an unclear understanding of the atmospheric impact of how tiny flecks of pollution in the atmosphere — known as aerosols to scientists and comprising materials ranging from soot to sulfur dioxide.

We always thought that — apart of course from soot [15 % of climate warming]-- such aerosol pollution creates cooling — as in the case of Chinese sulfur pollution and the Asian (Indian) brown cloud — and that air quality measures over recent decades in North America and Europe are now actually a major cause of increased warming speeds there — as the actual temperature catches up on the «CO2 baseline».

Generally, the trend has been attributed to an increase in sulfur pollution, which rapidly forms tiny particles in the air known as «aerosols» that reflect incoming solar energy back into space.

That seems the clearest statement yet of the real problem == is there anything that can replace current levels of air pollution, if high sulfur coal and oil are phased out for respiratory health reasons, that would make up for the loss of the aerosols» negative forcing on global temperature?