How China will Colonize America by Spewing Pollutants into the Atmosphere
Americans are Reportedly Inhaling 10 billion Pounds of Chinese Toxic Fumes Annually
It was reported a few days ago that some 10 billion pounds of airborne pollutants from Asia — ranging from soot to mercury to carbon dioxide to ozone — reach within the borders of the US annually, quoting numerous scientific estimates.
But the pollution figures that scientists studying the impact of Asian, and mostly Chinese, environmental waste in the atmosphere have suggested are more than alarming.
The real impact of the Asian Tigers, helped by their giant brother, China, which is now thought to have overtaken the US in emissions of greenhouse gases, may amount to a kind of colonization of the United States, and by extension, North America, potentially destabilizing weather patterns across the North Pacific and masking the effects of global warming.
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It may as well reduce rainfall in the American West and compromise efforts to meet air-pollution standards, an expert panel of the National Academies of Science, examining the problem and its impact is expected to report next summer. But experts worry too that the problem may worsen in 15 years when Chinese pollution would quadruple in intensity.
Laurie Geller of the NAS was quoted as saying: “Everyone realizes this is an issue of growing importance. This is very challenging science with lots of complexities and a lot of uncertainties.”
You remember seeing photos of the smog that hung over Beijing just a few weeks to the Olympics, and stories of how Chinese officials were working overtime to clear it in time for the Games opening.
Brown clouds of dust, soot and other toxic pollutants from China and elsewhere in Asia are tracked by specially designed satellite vehicles that fly through the projected paths of the pollution taking chemical samples and recording temperatures, humidity levels and sunlight intensity, as they stream across the Pacific and take a dive to western US.
Add that to results of a study released in London Wednesday indicating that global warming by just an additional 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit in sea temperatures in the world’s tropical regions was likely to stoke more powerful hurricanes and cyclones that may hit the US in future.
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It is a shame that people all over the world, have to suffer the potential consequentness from certain cultures ignorant society’s, including The United States.
Just goes on to indicate (yet again), that its time we start acting beyond borders. For, pollution (let alone climate change) had always been a global issue. Only now we have the evidence.