Ice core data show why air pollution is dropping more slowly in US and Western Europe despite lower sulfur emissions
Green Car Congress
JUNE 1, 2021
The air in the United States and Western Europe is much cleaner than even a decade ago. When concentrations of acidic sulfate from fossil fuel emissions decrease while the concentration of more basic ammonium molecules in the atmosphere stay constant, liquid water droplets in clouds become less acidic.
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