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In Depth: China's huge push to reduce air pollution had an unexpected consequence in the Arctic
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uses this to examine China's huge push to reduce air pollution had an unexpected consequence in the Arctic.
China's cuts to aerosol emissions reduced sea ice loss, but it may have revealed a bigger story about change. Feed your curiosity with an exclusive mystery every week, solved with and delivered direct to your inbox before it's seen anywhere else.
The Chinese people suffered under bad air quality for decades, Bjørn Samset , a senior researcher at the CICERO Centre for International in Norway, told This pollution temporarily slowed global warming and gave the rest of us a bit more time to adapt to a warmer
What is happening now is that we're seeing the full effects of greenhouse-gas-driven warming, which we would sooner or later have to face anyway. The new published March 18 in journal npj and Atmospheric , offers an unexpected answer: From 2000 to 2014, smog billowing from Chinese smokestacks may have been steering winter storms northward across the North Pacific, funneling more.
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