How China’s Air Pollution Cleanup Sent Shockwaves All the Way to the Arctic

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In the last decade, China managed to drastically reduce its air pollution. Let’s go! The point is that that same success could have accelerated global warming. The paradox appears in a recent study, published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, which reconstructs how the high emissions of industrial aerosols in East Asia between 2000 and 2014 altered the dynamics of winter cyclones over the North Pacific, which shifted to the Arctic, contrib…

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The decline in aerosols has disrupted the formation of cyclones in the North Pacific. In cascading, these changes have weakened the Arctic ice pack. Further evidence that the climate is reacting in a complex way to human interventions.

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For decades, the images of Chinese metropolises suffocating under a thick toxic fog symbolized the modern ecological disaster. Today, thanks to drastic measures, the sky of Shanghai or Beijing finally regains its clarity. An undeniable victory for public health, right? Absolutely. But the climate machine is complex [...]