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Emissions versus climate change

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Climate change is likely to offset some of the improvements in air quality expected from reductions in pollutant emissions. A comprehensive analysis of future air quality over North America suggests that, on balance, the air will still be cleaner in coming decades.

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Figure 1: Smog over New York City.

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  1. Christian Hogrefe is in the Atmospheric Modeling and Analysis Division, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711, USA,

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Hogrefe, C. Emissions versus climate change. Nature Geosci 5, 685–686 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1591

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