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(Health-NewsWire.Net, December 16, 2015 ) The Michigan University found the mercury concentrations in Hawaiian Yellowfin Tuna has increased by 3.8% each year from 1998-2008. Today, the advancement in science and technology is showing an increased trend with humans across the globe connected now more than ever before. Actions done or taken by one continent can affect the people of other continents. Now, scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and the California Institute of Technology (CIT) are showing this is true even for weather.
According to a study by the Texas A&M University and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers, the extreme pollution from China, and other Asian countries affects cloud formations, precipitation, storm intensity and other factors that has an impact on the global climate
New research also shows that during winter season, pollution in China is altering weather patterns in the United States and other parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Jonathan H. Jiang a JPL research scientist explained to weather.com about how this happens;
He said during the wintertime, human-induced pollution such as coal burning in many Asian cities can create smog (smoke+fog) that lasts for weeks. Under favorable wind conditions, these pollution particles move downwind across the North Pacific, where winter storms are prevalent.
In other words, those particles hide a ride on the jet stream, says Chris Dolce, a digital meteorologist with weather.com. Once these pollutants enter the Asian atmosphere, they follow the jet stream which waves its way from west to east through the Northern hemisphere. Then those particles acts as a cloud nucleus, helping clouds to form and as such changing storm prevalence and strength.
China's flourishing economy during the last 30 years has led to the set up of enormous manufacturing factories, industrial units, power plants and other facilities that produce huge amounts of air pollutants. The NASA research team found that for the past three decades, storms in the Northwest Pacific have gained some strength and clouds have grown deeper. Also, during that time, China and other Asian countries experienced an economic surge. Jing said that its still possible to reverse course if the right changes happen, if emission levels decrease enough, a notion some studies indicate could happen by 2030.
Final verdict
Not only does the Asian air pollution matters. Reducing pollution levels in Europe and the United States can balance the crisis in Asia to modulate regional climates as well as global weather conditions. The experts said they need more research to assess the full global impact of Asian pollution, including the ones that create more climate models, monitoring storm patterns by satellite and conducting measurements in the atmosphere.
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