We can and should control surface pollution as that effects air quality yet there is a huge difference between controlling air quality as that remains constant in cold or warm environments while temperatures constantly fluctuate from day to night, month to month and year to year, in the Western isles of Europe we are having a particularly cool and wet summer.

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A. moved to reduce surface ozone, a form of pollution caused, in part, by emissions from oil refineries.

NEWYORKER: Covert Operations

Researchers are developing new and ingenious ways of protecting surface waters and groundwater systems from pollution, and ensuring better water management.

UNESCO: World Water Day 22 March 2010: Clean Water for a Healthy World

Since GISS is all about the surface temperature, that suggests (to rational thinkers at least) that some portion of the surface temperature rise post 1975 is due to pollution controls being enacted.

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The publication was commissoned in conjunction with Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS), the International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (ICACGP), The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR).

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES