Cleaner air - more hurricanes

[Skybird]

That came unexpected. :)
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/11/us/air-pollution-atlantic-hurricanes-climate/index.html

A new study (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn9493) published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances found that over the past four decades, a 50% decrease in aerosols — tiny particles of air pollution — over North America and Europe led to a 33% increase in the number of tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic.
Onthe other side of the world, the study found that a 40% increase in aerosol pollution in China and India over the same time period sparked a 14% decline in the number of tropical cyclones in the western North Pacific.

Ooops.

[Rockstar]

That came unexpected. :)
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/11/us/air-pollution-atlantic-hurricanes-climate/index.html


Ooops.

Makes sense to me. I’ve been following hurricanes for years and have always noted how few hurricanes develop when winds carry Saharan sand and dust aloft.

[em2nought]

That came unexpected. :)
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/11/us/air-pollution-atlantic-hurricanes-climate/index.html


Ooops.

Who can we sue for reducing air pollution? :har:

So it must work kind of like cloud seeding, and the moisture/energy is pulled out of the air that would have otherwise been available to be a hurricane?