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Pollution over Asian skies driven by Western demand for goods: study

2016-09-10 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CTV: A new study has found that the release of climate-warming emissions clogging skies in East Asia is being driven by consumption of manufactured goods in Western Europe, North America and Oceania. Researchers looked at a number of aerosols (solid and liquid particles suspended in air) created through manufacturing and energy production, such as black carbon, which absorb solar radiation and warm the atmosphere -- an effect known as "radiative forcing. The aerosols only stick in the air for days...

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