Sentences with phrase «warming pollution actually»
The biggest single source of global warming pollution actually started to shrink in 2014.
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First, he discusses the recent conclusion that China's massive burning of coal actually thwarted warming (an ironic idea) by increasing particulate pollution.
Other influences: aerosols, likely cooling, though the temporal variation is key (eg, they are net cooling overall, but their trend in the past 20 years may actually be net warming because of sulfate pollution control in the industrialized nations).
Just as cleaning up air pollution may actually add up to 1 degree of warming, it may also increase the risk of skin cancers and blindness from UV radiation.
packed with common problems awaiting for solutions - global warming, urban air pollution, contaminants in drinking water / contains samples of distributions of variables, it is actually a very large Bayesian belief network, which can be used for assessment - level analyses and conditioning and optimising different decision / and discussions about the actual topics related to real - world decision - making, there is also a meta level in Opasnet.
One published paper this year (in «Nature» again) actually argued that man's air pollution has SLOWED warming affects:
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».
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.
We know what burning fossil fuels does to warm the planet, but now research is showing that air pollution is actually slowing down wind speeds, hampering the effectiveness of wind farms themselves.
For example, BHI Director David Tuerck has claimed that «the very question of whether the climate is warming is in doubt...» [20] Claims such as «wind power actually increases pollution» can be found in many of BHI's reports.