A video from NASA shows how air pollution moves around the world. So what happens when emissions from Asia blow across the Pacific Ocean to North America?
Kendra King's insight:
According to this article the reason for New England just experienced a horrible winter might be due to China’s pollution. Scientist Johnathan Jiang explained that the pollution from coal emission “foster cloud formation,” which make for bigger storms. With the way the pollution moves, the emissions blow toward New England. None of this is for certain, but for once it might not be solely the Ozone layer ( although it is not like the pollution is really helping the Ozone layer. Or, it might be a mix of the Ozone layer and the clouds affected by pollution.) At this point though, I don’t really care what the exact environmental reason is behind the snow. To me it is clear, pollution is harming the environment one way or another. The most glaring indication is the affect the pollution has on the direct population as featured in the new documentary Under the Dome. Other less obvious issues are that this new weather pattern also affects our food production, which is also alarming. Given the freak storms that have been happening throughout the country and the droughts in the west, I could only say the crops were adversely affected this year. Though the biggest reason to be mad at China is based off the fact that I live in New England. Personally, it would be lovely if the winter’s weren’t like this anymore. My car doesn’t fare well in this weather and I no longer know where to shovel the show in my years anymore (I am kidding...slightly, this is still an issue too just no where near catastrophic as the health concerns mentioned earlier).