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Title: China's War on Air Pollution Has Had a Sinister Side Effect No One Saw Coming
Post by: rangerrebew on January 11, 2019, 06:12:58 pm

 China's War on Air Pollution Has Had a Sinister Side Effect No One Saw Coming
PETER DOCKRILL
3 JAN 2019

When China declares war, it means business. So when China announced an all-out blitz on pollution in the face of red alert smog levels so bad they can make entire skylines vanish, it was a big, progressive step.

But a new study has revealed there's also been an unexpected downside to the move.

China's official action plan to address its pollution problems was launched in 2013, and since then, the nation's drastic air pollution controls have had a correspondingly drastic effect, slashing concentrations of harmful PM 2.5 particle matter in eastern China by almost 40 percent.

Unfortunately, that's not all that's happened.

https://www.sciencealert.com/china-s-war-on-air-pollution-has-had-a-sinister-side-effect-we-never-expected (https://www.sciencealert.com/china-s-war-on-air-pollution-has-had-a-sinister-side-effect-we-never-expected)

Title: Re: China's War on Air Pollution Has Had a Sinister Side Effect No One Saw Coming
Post by: IsailedawayfromFR on January 12, 2019, 02:34:51 am

Moral of the Story:  So combating climate change really can kill you.