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| | Asian Brown Cloud |
 | | The Asian Brown Cloud may be considered an extreme state of air pollution, but because it is caused mostly by millions of individuals simply trying to live their lives, stopping the Asian Brown Cloud at its root cause is difficult. | | | The UN report, “The Asian Brown Cloud: Climate and Other Environmental Impacts,” is the most comprehensive study on the ABC, and is the primary resource for most of all the other information on it, such as news articles or opinion pieces. | | | Although follow-up studies are needed to unravel the precise role of the cloud, preliminary results from the UNPE report suggest that the Asian Brown Cloud has serious regional and global implications. |
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http://www.sfuhs.org/features/globalization/asian_cloud
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| | Uncommon Thought Journal: Humans impact the environment? No Way! |
| | The "Asian Brown Cloud" now called simply the "Brown Cloud" (because US and other nation's pollution is traveling the world as well as "Asian") is a blanket of chemicals traveling in a "global pollution circuit" several miles off the ground. | | | Well, maybe you have heard about the "Asian Brown Cloud." It has been under the eye of the UN Environment Program since 1999. | | | Veerabhadran Ramanathan, who led 1999 research into what was dubbed the "Asian Brown Cloud," said there was evidence the Gulf region was being sucked into a global pollution circuit moving several miles above ground. |
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http://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/022404-humans_impact_the_en.php
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| | BETTY C. JUNG WEB SITE - WELLNESS RESEARCH TOPICS - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH |
| | The article calls the theory of the Asian Brown Cloud to be exaggerated and misleading. I felt the article had absolutely no data or facts to backup what they claimed. | | | The articles that I did come across were consistent with their facts and explained the theory of the Asian Brown Cloud in detail. | | | Guardian Describes how the Asian Brown Cloud was discovered and changes in weather patterns. |
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| | Asian brown cloud The Asian Brown Cloud is an enormous three kilometre thick layer of haze covering the northern toxic i... | | | Asian Fairy Bluebird Irena puella (1790) The Asian Fairy Bluebird ( Irena puella) is a medium-sized bird. | | | Asian cuisine Asian cuisine is a term for the various cuisines of Indian and Middle Eastern cuisine. |
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| | Brief24Sept.doc |
| | Perhaps the name 'Asian Brown Cloud' was chosen to give an impression of the Asian region choking under a thick and permanent blanket of dirty atmosphere," he told reporters here. | | | Srinivasan said the term "Asian Brown Cloud" was misleading and the scientists were worried about the implications that were suggested in the report. | | | In August the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said the "Asian Brown Cloud" -- a vast haze of pollution stretching across South Asia -- was damaging agriculture, modifying rainfall patterns and endangering the population. |
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| | danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: The Asian brown cloud |
| | So far, the increase in ground-level pollution that the Asian brown cloud causes in the United States is "not catastrophic, or even critical," said David Parrish, a research chemist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Aeronomy Lab in Boulder, Colorado.... | | | The Asian cloud is only the first and largest of a number of high-atmosphere brown clouds scientists have discovered. | | | The Asian brown cloud, researchers now know, routinely climbs high enough into the atmosphere to hitch a ride on the fast-moving jet stream heading east to North America. |
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http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/001259.html
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| | Asian Brown Cloud Contradicts, Confounds Global Warming Theories - by James M. Taylor - The Heartland Institute |
| | Ramanathan’s discovery of the “Asian Brown Cloud,” as it came to be known, offered scientists an opportunity to study and perhaps eliminate one of Earth’s most deadly masses of pollution. | | | According to Mahoney, the Asian brown cloud may cause as much planetary warming as all other global sources combined. | | | A large cloud of soot, produced mainly by impoverished Asians burning dung for energy, is blanketing the region, and indeed the globe. |
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http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=12407
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| | 12/2/2003 -- Asian Brown Cloud Evaporates At UN Meet |
| | Actually, Asian Brown Cloud is a haze that prevails for a short period during winter and is neither regionally exclusive nor scientifically appropriate, according to an official release issued here on Tuesday. | | | New Delhi, February 11: India has succeeded in having a draft decision on controversial Asian Brown Cloud issue dropped from the consideration of the governing council of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) meet held recently in Kenya. | | | Indias views on Asian Brown Cloud had found wide support at the crucial meeting. |
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http://forests.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=20081
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| | Turns of Phrase: Asian Brown Cloud |
| | Asian Brown Cloud seems to have been around for a couple of years in scientific circles, but came to prominence in August 2002 in a report prepared by climatologists at the UN Environment Programme in preparation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg that month. | | | The “Asian Brown Cloud,” a 2-mile-thick blanket of pollution over South Asia, may be causing the premature deaths of half a million people in India each year, deadly flooding in some areas and drought in others, a new U.N.-sponsored study indicates. | | | A UN-backed study released on Friday said the “Asian Brown Cloud”—a vast haze of pollution stretching across South Asia—is damaging agriculture, modifying rainfall patterns and endangering the population. |
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| | Asian Brown Cloud: Indian scientists debunk UN report- The Times of India |
| | BANGALORE: Indian scientists on Monday debunked the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report about the `Asian Brown Cloud', saying most statements in the report were an exaggeration and distortion and did not have a scientific basis. | | | Asian Brown Cloud: Indian scientists debunk UN report | | | Asian Brown Cloud: Indian scientists debunk UN report- The Times of India |
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| | The Hindu : `Large Asian nations increasing air pollution' |
| | The Atmospheric Brown Cloud (ABC) or the Asian Brown Cloud — as it was known earlier — controversy is once again in the news with the Nobel Laureate, Paul Crutzen, and his team of scientists all set to establish two monitoring stations at the Maldives and North Korea to study the `ABC phenomenon'. | | | Crutzen, director emeritus, Max Plank Institute for Chemistry (Germany), and who was part of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) team that had conducted the `Asian Brown Cloud' study, blamed the `large developing' countries in Asia for increasing the air pollution by biomass burning. | | | The two centres will measure the levels and ascertain the exact cause of aerosol and carbon in the atmosphere in the Asian region. |
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| | UN Chronicle Causes of “Asian Brown Cloud” Must Be Addressed at Sustainable Development Summit |
| | Desai said the Asian Brown Cloud is a classic example of why international support is necessary to confront a common enemy. | | | Damaging development trends, a major focus of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, are directly causing the 3-kilometre thick layer of haze known as the “Asian Brown Cloud”. | | | “The Brown Cloud does not recognize borders, and it indiscriminately hurts people, in their health and in their livelihoods, wherever they live.” It shows how problems are linked and must be addressed in a comprehensive manner, Mr. |
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http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue3/081902_asian_haze.html
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| | Asian brown cloud antidote Greenpeace International |
| | Earth Summit has answer to Asian brown cloud | | | Fossil fuel consumption in Asia is one of the contributors to a brown cloud of pollutants stretching across the region. | | | Now the United Nations and climate scientists have made it official: there's a giant cloud of brown haze stretching across Asia. |
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| | Indian government denies health impact of brown cloud -- Kumar 325 (7363): 513 -- BMJ |
| | Scientists in India are claiming that the Asian brown cloud is not something specific to Asia and does not have a knock-on effect on pollution related mortality. | | | Indian government denies health impact of brown cloud -- Kumar 325 (7363): 513 -- BMJ | | | Indian government denies health impact of brown cloud |
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http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/extract/325/7363/513/a
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| | Asian Brown Cloud (Distinguished Lecture) |
| | This cloud of pollution at times has a brownish color (e.g, the Denver Brown Cloud) and this brown cloud phenomenon is a common feature of industrial and rural regions around the world. | | | It is now becoming clear that the brown cloud can have large impacts on Agriculture, health, climate and the water budget of the planet. | | | To understand how aerosols are modifying global warming, he designed and served as co-chief scientist for the $25M Indian Ocean Experiment, which led to the discovery of the South Asian Brown haze and its surprisingly large impact on the solar heating of the region. |
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| | Jahrbuch-CD der MPG 2003 - The Indian Ocean Experiment and |
| | The Asian Brown Cloud is a follow-on international research project that includes all of Asia. | | | The brown haze is a worldwide phenomenon and should not be assumed to be just an Indian or an Asian problem. | | | The south Asian brown haze covers most of the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal and the south Asian region. |
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| | IANGV - NGV Communications |
| | According to a United Nations-backed report released this month, the Asian Brown Cloud - a vast haze of pollution stretching across South Asia - is damaging agriculture, modifying rainfall patterns and endangering the population. | | | The implications of the Asian Brown Cloud are nothing but bad. | | | A team of 200 scientists found that Brown Cloud also was reducing sunlight hitting the earth's surface by as much as 10 per cent to 15 per cent. |
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| | 'Asian' brown cloud back on the horizon- The Times of India |
| | NEW DELHI: The Asian Brown Cloud is back on the horizon in its new avtar, the Atmospheric Brown Cloud. | | | 'Asian' brown cloud back on the horizon- The Times of India | | | Hoping to have thus defused the diplomatic timebomb, which caused India much heartburn a year ago, an international team of scientists is on track to study the pollution haze that has spread thousands of kilometres to cover Asia and could hit rain patterns, agriculture and health. |
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| | edie news centre - Asian brown cloud will cause climate crisis unless action is taken, says report |
| | The Asian Brown Cloud: Climate and Other Environmental Impacts, reveals that the detrimental impact on climate is having repercussions on health and agriculture, with India alone estimating 37,000 premature deaths due to air pollution and a 10% reduction in the winter rice yield. | | | The Asian brown haze phenomena, which restricts 10-15% of sunlight hitting the earths surface in the region, is the likely explanation for recent disasters such as the Bangladeshi floods and drought in Pakistan, says a United Nations Environment Programme report. | | | The scientists discovered that whilst blocking some solar energy from the earths surface, the brown cloud also has heat-absorbing properties that are warming lower parts for the atmosphere in the area. |
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| | outlookindia.com wired |
| | Government today strongly criticised the UNEP report on the 'Asian Brown Cloud' saying it was based on preliminary studies and there was no evidence that it disrupted weather system or monsoons. | | | The United Nations Environment Project's study 'Regional and Global Impacts of Vast Pollution Cloud' projects an alarming picture of Asian Brown Haze based on preliminary limited modelling studies founded on several assumptions from which no definite conclusions can be drawn, an official release said here today. | | | There is neither evidence in the UNEP report that the haze leads to the disruption of the weather system or monsoons nor any scientific basis from observations for attributing the droughts over the western part of the Asian continent to the haze, the release said adding winter precipitation is highly variable on year-to-year basis. |
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| | Asian brown cloud - encyclopedia article about Asian brown cloud. |
| | The Asian Brown Cloud is an enormous three kilometre thick layer of haze Haze is an atmospheric phenomenon where dust, smoke and other pollutant particles obscure the normal clarity of the sky. | | | UNEP Impact Study of the "Asian Brown Cloud" | | | These countries are all members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Asian%20brown%20cloud
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| | rediff.com: Govt dispels Asian brown haze |
| | The government has fired a counter-volley against the United Nations Environment Programme and accused it of grossly exaggerating the impact of the pollution haze in the troposphere called the Asian Brown Cloud. | | | "The UNEP projects an alarming picture of Asian Brown Haze based on otherwise preliminary modelling studies," the government said on Friday in a statement issued on the eve of the World Summit on Sustainable Development which starts in Johannesburg on Monday. | | | "Such a haze in the troposphere is not only characteristic of the Asian region but is also observed over other regions too like Europe, north America and east Asia," the government said in its strong statement issued in response to a widely reported press conference by UNEP executive director, Klaus Toepfer earlier this month. |
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| | Brown cloud begins to choke Asia |
| | The Asian Brown Cloud, as the scientists call it, is "damaging agriculture, modifying rainfall patterns including those of the mighty monsoon and putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk," says the report released in London Monday, August 12. | | | The massive brown cloud is reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface in this area by 10 to 15 per cent, Prof V. Ramanathan from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography told reporters. | | | Brown haze may be used as smokescreen by greenhouse gas emitters |
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| | dangerousmeta! » Blog Archive » AsiaNews.IT: |
| | From DangerousMeta comes a link to this article in Asia News about the Asian Brown Cloud. | | | “Ramanathan is among those who discovered the so-called “Asian Brown Cloud”. | | | Cloud of pollution threatens Persian Gulf, rest of world. |
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| | wikien.info: Main_Page |
| | The Asian Brown Cloud is an enormous three kilometre thick layer of haze covering the northern Indian Ocean, India, Pakistan, and much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and China. | | | Asian values was a concept popular in the 1990s, which argued for a unique set of Asian institutions and political ideologies, involving authoritarian government (as opposed to the democratic values and institutions of the West). | | | Asian fetish is a slang term used in the United States to describe the situation where a non-Asian, typically but not necessarily a white man, is attracted primarily to Asians, particularly East Asians such as Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, etc. An "Asian fetish" is generally not a fetish by the Freud.. |
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| | Birdwatching Trip Report from Sri Lanka |
| | Asian Paradise-Flycatcher, Brown-capped Babbler, Yellow-billed Babbler, Purple-rumped Sunbird, Long-billed Sunbird, Oriental White-eye, Black-hooded Oriole, Brown Shrike, White-bellied Drongo, House Crow, Southern Hill Myna. | | | Also seen were Greater Flameback, Forest Wagtail, Yellow-browed Bulbul, Brown-breasted Flycatcher, Asian Paradise Flycatcher and Southern Hill-Myna. | | | A highland plateau comprising of dense, cloud-wreathed montane forest where the stunted trees are hung with lichen and epiphytes, and grassland. |
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