Thankfully, the U.S. and many other countries around the world have worked to reduce haze -
forming aerosol pollution, and we can all breathe a little easier.
Not exact matches
Sulphate
pollution from power stations and factory chimneys produces
aerosol particles in the atmosphere which encourage clouds to
form.
It comes from ARM and James Hansen's references to global dimming developing from clouds being enhanced and or
formed by
pollution, sulfates, and or certain
aerosols and so forth.
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.
Not counting the 0.9 degrees Ramanathan and Feng have pointed to waiting in the
form of hidden deferred warming from
aerosols that will be «unmasked» when fossil air
pollution or fossil energy production stops and the likelihood of another 1.0 degrees C coming in the least time it will take to actually stabilize greenhouse emissions.
S. Ichtiaque Rasool and Stephen Schneider of NASA, for example, modelled the effects of
pollution in the
form of
aerosols and sulphur emissions in the atmosphere and discovered that a significant increase of such
pollution could - possibly - lead to a cooling episode.