http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080507183248.izieri9o&show_article=1
Cleaner air to worsen droughts in Amazon: study
Curbing a notorious form of industrial pollution may ironically harm
Amazonia, one of the world's natural treasures and a key buffer
against global warming, a study released Wednesday has found.
Its authors see a strong link between a decrease in sulphur dioxide
emissions from coal-fired power plants and a rise in sea temperature
in the northern Atlantic that was blamed for wreaking a devastating
drought in western Amazonia in 2005.
University of Exeter professor Peter Cox and colleagues created a
computer model to simulate the impact of aerosols -- airborne
particles that, like sulphur dioxide, are also spewed out by
fossil-fuel power plants -- on Amazonia's climate.
The aerosols, while a bad pollutant, indirectly ease the problem of
global warming as they reflect sunlight, making it bounce back into
space rather than warm the Earth's surface.
