Researchers blame Chinese air pollution for winter cyclones hitting Pacific Ocean

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/21/researchers-blame-chinese-air-pollution-for-winter-cyclones-hitting-pacific-ocean/



Researchers blame Chinese air pollution for winter cyclones hitting Pacific Ocean
By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 17:36 EST

Surging air pollution from China and other fast-growing Asian economies has intensified winter cyclones in the northwest Pacific, scientists said Tuesday.

Winter cyclones in latitudes including northwestern China, Korea and Japan have packed stronger winds and more rain as a result of rising levels of particulate pollution, they said.

The dusty fallout affects how moisture develops in clouds and how heat is distributed in storm systems, said Yuan Wang of the prestigious Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology.

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The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, is the latest probe into the environmental hazard from particulates, which are mainly the sooty residue from burning fossil fuels.

[greymattermom]

1. US west coast drought too?

I wonder if Chinese pollution can be linked to the drought in the US west.

[unhappycamper]

3. If think of global weather as a balloon,

a push on one side moves something somewhere else. I think it does.

[OnlinePoker]

5. We've slipped into a La Nina weather pattern (neutral most of last year)

This normally means a dry west coast so don't expect relief anytime soon.

[Demeter]

2. An Interesting, and not implausible idea.

This year especially there have been massive storm systems coming off the Pacific and sweeping across this nation, where before they used to peter out in the Rockies.

And might the visible weakness in the weather storms generated out of the Gulf of Mexico be directly attributable to BP's infamous oil spill?

[FreakinDJ]

4. That and all the High Pressure developing over Northern China