That means higher electric and gasoline bills for consumers, who are, ultimately, the real source of atmospheric pollution.
"And in parts of the developing world through atmospheric pollution, they be inadvertently doing such things, " he added.
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Without the Olympics, it is unlikely that Beijing would be trying at all hard to curb atmospheric pollution.
Atmospheric pollution rules out placing the sculptures back on the temple itself.
"This does not deal with the problem at source, " says Prof Kelly, an expert on the impact of atmospheric pollution on human health.
Athens might no longer be a war zone but atmospheric pollution had already caused serious damage to many of the marbles remaining there, he added.
In fact, many nuclear energy based corporations argue that the danger of atmospheric pollution from coal is actually greater than the dangers of nuclear power.
Scientists have known for a long time that aerosols cool climate by reflecting sunlight and making clouds brighter, but the new study is the first to use a global model to estimate the net effects on plant carbon intake resulting from this type of atmospheric pollution.
The publication was commissoned in conjunction with Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS), the International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (ICACGP), The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR).
As well as destroying such native ecosystems, deforestation also diminishes so-called "carbon sinks" -- thereby reducing the Earth's capacity to absorb and re-process atmospheric carbon dioxide -- while also adding to air pollution through the burning of land to clear it for cultivation (sugarcane fields are traditionally fired prior to harvest to remove leaves and drive away snakes).
This project makes use for the first time of high resolution simulations from a state-of-the-art regional atmospheric chemistry model to capture both urban and regional scale air pollution features.
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