Coal particulate pollution, on the other hand, kills fewer than 13, 000 people per year.
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This interacts with the NOX and SOX to produce the dangerously small particulate pollution that leads to premature deaths.
"Particulate pollution reflect incoming sunlight and make clouds brighter, " said research team-member Dr Paul Halloran from the UK Met Office Hadley Centre.
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The Environmental Protection Agency consistently ranks hazardous-waste sites as less harmful to human health than radon, outdoor particulate pollution or working exposure to pesticides.
Many students of climate change argue that, although the artificial release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide works to raise the global temperature, particulate pollution should, by promoting cloud cover and thus reflecting solar energy back into space, have a compensating cooling effect.
These measurements were then correlated with data on fine particulate air pollution.
The study was actually conducted in and reported on air pollution in Boston, but it pointed out that air quality levels even below current standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency still pose risks to people who breathe particulate air pollution.
Prof Kevin McConway, a statistician at the Open University said, based on the findings, if Newcastle were to halve its current particulate air pollution level it would lead to two or three fewer low weight babies out of the total 3, 500 or so born in the city each year.
The approximate stand-still of global temperature during 1940-1975 is generally attributed to an approximate balance of aerosol cooling and greenhouse gas warming during a period of rapid growth of fossil fuel use with little control on particulate air pollution, but quantitative interpretation has been impossible because of the absence of adequate aerosol measurements.
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However, particulate and sulfurous pollution are easier to reduce than CO2, and they are washed out of the atmosphere relatively quickly.
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This will allow truckers to reduce emissions significantly (diesel emissions include nitrous oxides, particulate matter, and other air toxics and they are a major source of pollution in some areas).
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