NASA Says Aerosols May Drive Arctic Warming

by Matt Ball on April 9, 2009

A new study from NASA concludes that a good degree of atmospheric warming may be due to aerosols that are emitted from natural and human sources. These small airborne particles can both reflect and absorb the sun’s radiation, and they also affect climate by changing cloud properties. While these particles appear throughout the atmosphere, the areas that show the strongest effects from aerosols are those that have seen the highest temperature increases.

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