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Atmospheric Science

What is the biggest air pollution event in the modern era?

June 24, 2015
What is the biggest air pollution event in the modern era?
Centre of the Laki fissure, Iceland today. Credit: Daniele Trippanera (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

It’s hard to think of the scale of the biggest air pollution event in the modern era. Immediately my mind conjures up memories of black and white photographs of the Great London Smog of 1952. Then I start thinking bigger, how about the 1.2 billion vehicles world-wide on the road churning out nitrogen dioxide every single day? Well these are a drop in the ocean compared with bigger industrial pollu ...[Read More]

How we might lose the battle against climate change … or against any other environmental problem?

March 6, 2015
How we might lose the battle against climate change … or against any other environmental problem?
Smog over the East coast of China (Copyright: NASA)

This would not be a blog about atmospheric science if I did not talk about climate change. But I won’t be talking about the science of climate change… there are numerous blogs including here that will talk much better about this. The problem that will be addressed here does not only refer to the “battle” we are currently facing with climate but also numerous other environmental issues ...[Read More]