How melting Arctic sea ice is keeping smog over China

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“We will make our skies blue again,” vowed Chinese Premier Li Keqiang earlier this month, pledging aggressive new steps to combat China’s notorious smog....But a study adds a possible wrinkle to China’s fight for blue skies. Climate change – in particular, the melting of Arctic sea ice – makes the country's smog even more likely to stay where it is. “The ventilation is getting worse,” one of the study’s co-authors, Georgia Tech atmospheric scientist Yuhang Wang, told Science Magazine. Yuhang Wang is a professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. The report he co-authored was first published in Science Advances. 

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Environment
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College of Sciences, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Yuhang Wang, climate change, air pollution, China, airpocalypse
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  • Created By: Renay San Miguel
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Mar 17, 2017 - 11:05am
  • Last Updated: Mar 17, 2017 - 3:05pm