NASA satellite measures pollution from East Asia to North America

[lovuian]

NASA satellite measures pollution from East Asia to North America

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Washington, March 18 : A NASA satellite has measured the amount of pollution from East Asian forest fires, urban exhaust, and industrial production that makes its way to western North America.

Hongbin Yu, an associate research scientist of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, teamed with other researchers to take advantage of the innovations in satellite technology and has now made the first-ever satellite-based estimate of pollution aerosols transported from East Asia to North America.
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Satellite data confirmed 18 teragrams - almost 40 billion pounds - of pollution aerosol was exported to the northwestern Pacific Ocean and 4.5 teragrams - nearly 10 billion pounds - reached North America annually from East Asia over the study period.

According to Yu, "We used the latest satellite capabilities to distinguish industrial pollution and smoke from dust transported to the western regions of North America from East Asia."

"Looking at four years of data from 2002 to 2005, we estimated the amount of pollution arriving in North America to be equivalent to about 15 percent of local emissions of the U.S. and Canada," he said.
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We are all going to choke to death if we don't stop this

[magellan]

1. Dinosaurs died off because they couldn't adapt to the new conditions

We'll go the same way not because we couldn't adapt, but because we're just too damned stupid to survive.

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