Brown Clouds add to Global Warming


	Brown Clouds add to Global Warming

kkcapricorn

8-2-2007 8:11 PM

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pollution, soot, aerosols, global warming

kkcapricorn says:

Wish more people would start doing something about it already.

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During the six-month tropical dry season, soot and other aerosols waft over the Indian Ocean from Asia and form <A href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/070308_pollution_rain.html">plumes of pollution</A> known as "atmospheric brown clouds".
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The overall warming trend caused by <A href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/070329_non_co2.html">greenhouse gases</A> and aerosols in the area have caused the lower atmospheric layer to warm by 0.25 degrees Celsius per decade—twice the rate of warming at the surface, Pilewskie said in an analysis of the study.
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This warming has had enormous implications for the Himalayas, where warming has led to a rapid glacier melt.
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"The large clouds of pollution in Asia absorb enough solar energy to have climatic impacts," Pilewskie said.
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