Sentences with phrase «recent atmospheric pollution»

If we as a nation choose to ignore the science community over greenhouse gasses, we would be ignoring a professional community that has served us well in recent atmospheric pollution issues.

Whenever I am asked the question of how well we understand the atmosphere that is being changed by the addition of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, I often find it useful to look at the scientific history of two other recent atmospheric pollution challenges: acid rain and stratospheric ozone depletion.

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Climate change, rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, excess nutrient inputs, and pollution in its many forms are fundamentally altering the chemistry of the ocean, often on a global scale and, in some cases, at rates greatly exceeding those in the historical and recent geological record.

Another recent study, based in Jiangsu, one of China's richest provinces, found that atmospheric pollution led to at least one - tenth of birth defects there.