The reason for the sharp warming of the European climate is the cleaner air

21.01.2009

Scientists from the French Atomic Energy Commission argued that reducing emissions also lead to warming.
Harsh warming of European climate is caused by a reduction in the level of air pollution in recent decades, but the tempos of purification of air are shrinkage and the temperature growth in Europe will be delayed, forecast French scientists in an article published in the journal "Nature Geoscience". Warming climate in most cases is associated with increasing volumes discharged hothouse gases.But the authors of the article, Robert Votar from the French Atomic Energy Commission and his colleagues have shown that reducing emissions emitted also lead to warming.
Scientists note that the fight to reduce the discharge of industrial pollutants, which started in 80-years of the twentieth century, has increased the transparency of the air. This alleviated the access of solar rays to the surface of the Earth and its more intense heat, which led to a rise in average annual temperatures. At present, the transparency of European air is not increased to much, and therefore temperatures will grow more slowly, scientists believe.
Votar and his colleagues have examined the data for transparency of air collected of 342 meteorological stations in Europe. Researchers found that for the past 30 years the transparency of air essence increased, reported Agency "Novosti". Scientists have discovered a correlation between this trend and reducing industrial pollution.
Data analysis has shown that increasing the transparency of the air in Europe has ensured 20% of the registered growth in average annual temperature. For Eastern Europe this cipher is even 50%. The authors of the research think that further increase of the transparency of the air in Europe should not be expected - its pace slowed down significantly since 2000, therefore increase the temperature of the European climate will continue with substantially more slower pace.

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