from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
If there were any doubts about being in a
global society, consider a study in
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences. The study details discovery that
tiny floating particles can bind to pollutants,
allowing them to last longer and travel
farther that what previous global climate
models predicted. This new way of viewing
pollutants and how they ride through the
atmosphere has quadrupled the global
estimate of lung cancer risk. Scientists
from Oregon State University, part of an
international team of researchers, say the
level of certain pollutants measured on a
mountain top in the Oregon Cascades was
four times that previous models predicted
and there is evidence the pollutants came
all the way from the other side of the
Pacific Ocean.