ApocaDocs: Ozone Pollution to Worsen Under Climate Change

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Posted Tue Oct 14 2008: from Discovery News:


	Ozone Pollution to Worsen Under Climate Change http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1224009058 Surface-level ozone, a poisonous gas that claims tens of thousands of lives annually, could get much worse thanks to the effects of climate change, according to new research... "It's the third most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide and methane," David Fowler of the National Environmental Research Council in the United Kingdom said. "But it's not the biggest one, and it's not the biggest threat to human health -- particulates in the atmosphere are worse. So it's a sort of Cinderella gas that has been mostly ignored."

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