How Cleaner Air Changes the Climate
Air quality improvements affect regional climate in complex ways
Science,
2018
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Ambitious legislation to clean Earth’s atmosphere of aerosol pollution may be paradoxically at odds with humanity’s efforts to control global warming. Since most aerosol particles reflect sunlight, they can actually have a cooling effect on Earth’s land masses. Policy makers and environmentalists will appreciate this detailed article by climatologist Bjørn Hallvard Samset, which clarifies the complex atmospheric interactions of aerosols and greenhouse gases, combined with natural climate trends.
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Bjørn Hallvard Samset is Research Director at the CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway.
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