Climatic Changes Outlined In UNEP Project Report

摘要

Cities from Beijing/China, to New Delhi, India, are getting darker; glaciers in ranges like the Himalayas are melting faster; and weather systems are becoming more extreme due in part to the combined effects of man-made atmospheric brown clouds (ABCs) and greenhouse gases. These are among the conclusions of a U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) panel, led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography climate and atmospheric sciences professor V. Ramanathan, that studied a more than three-kilometer-thick layer of soot and other man-made particles that stretches from the Arabian Peninsula to China and the Western Pacific Ocean.