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Monday, April 13, 2009
Climate Change 'Own Goal': Laws To Combat Acid Rain Are DRIVING Arctic Warming, Claims Nasa
From The Daily Mail:
It is widely recognised that humans are their own worst enemies when it comes to global warming.
But the latest research from Nasa suggests laws created to preserve the environment are causing much of the damage.
Legislation to improve air quality and cut acid rain has accounted for a shocking half of Arctic warming over the past three decades, the space agency reports.
Climate scientist Drew Shindell of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York found that declines in solid 'aerosol' particles brought in under laws to improve air quality likely triggered 45 per cent of temperature rises.
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