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Texas Freezes Agency's Funding Over Release of Data Linking Fracking to Ozone Pollution
2014-04-15 14:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Observer: The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has consistently said that fracking has no significant impact on air quality, not in the Barnett Shale. Not in the Eagle Ford Shale. Not anywhere. It was news, then, when a TCEQ-funded study, performed by the Alamo Area Council of Governments, a San Antonio-area regional planning agency, suggested a link between oil and gas drilling and a recent surge in the region's ozone levels. Was TCEQ finally admitting that the fumes being belched out by gas...
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Asian pollution is strengthening storms, new study finds
2014-04-15 11:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Researchers have suggested that pollution from China and other Asian countries is strengthening storms above the Pacific Ocean and influencing weather patterns elsewhere in the northern hemisphere. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal has suggested there is a link between the high levels of pollution that affect many Asian cities and the intensity of Pacific storms. Researchers used a multiscale global aerosol-climate model to observe that...
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Pacific Storm Tracks Strengthened by Air Pollution from Asia
2014-04-15 09:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Softpedia: Pacific storm tracks are heavily influenced by pollution from Asia, a new study finds Researchers in the United States have demonstrated for the first time that anthropogenic particles released into the atmosphere by Asian nations bear a significant influence on the Pacific storm track, which in turn influences global weather patterns. This research is the first of its kind and demonstrates the link based on comparisons of air pollution levels recorded between 1850 and 2000. The team was led...
Asia pollution drives Pacific storms
2014-04-15 01:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Air pollution in China and other Asian countries is having far-reaching impacts on weather patterns across the Northern Hemisphere, a study suggests. Researchers have found that pollutants are strengthening storms above the Pacific Ocean, which feeds into weather systems in other parts of the world. The effect was most pronounced during the winter. The study is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Lead author Yuan Wang, from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
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Biomass Waste Energy Pollution Worse than Coal, Study Claims
2014-04-14 15:55:00| Waste Age
Electricity generation from biomass waste is more polluting and worse for the climate than coal, according to a new study by an environmental advocacy firm. read more
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