China coal plants affecting world climate?
by William Papolis, Wednesday Mar 07, 2007 10:35PM EST
"Severe pollution from the Far East is almost certainly affecting the weather near you", says a Texas A&M University researcher who studied the problem. "This pollution directly affects our weather," "During the past few decades, there has been a dramatic increase in atmospheric aerosols -- mostly sulfate and soot from coal burning -- especially in China and India," "We compared these deep convective clouds from the 10-year period of 1984-1994 to the period from 1994-2005 and discovered these storms have risen anywhere from 20 to as high as 50 percent." Further, in his report he goes on to claim that this problem is especially worse during the winter months. |
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