China is CREATING heat waves over the Pacific Ocean – killing fish and other wildlife

It may sound like a conspiracy that China is controlling global warming, but a new study has found that this could unintentionally be the case.

Researchers from the Ocean University of China have found that the country created “heat spots” over the northeastern Pacific Ocean from 2010 through 2020.

The team noted that temperatures had warmed to 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit from the Bering Strait and the journey had covered 1,000 miles to the Gulf of Alaska, causing fish to die, toxic algae to bloom and whales to go missing.

However, the warming events turned out to originate in China agenda reduce emissions of aerosols, which are pollutants that… cooling effect on the earth because it acts like a mirror and reflects the sun’s heat back into space.

Researchers have now warned the Chinese government that it should reconsider its ban on aerosols, saying a lack of them will continue to raise temperatures in the region.

The country has experienced record-breaking heat waves in the past decade, such as in 2015 when temperatures reached 125 degrees.

And in 2010, temperatures in China rose more than 104 degrees, which could support the researchers’ findings.

In the latest study, the researchers noted that the heat wave patterns appeared to begin after the Chinese government successfully reduced emissions of aerosols, such as sulfate, from factories and power plants in 2010.

The team created twelve computer climate models that were run under two conditions: the first was where East Asian emissions remained stable, while the other reflected the decline over the past decade.

They found that models where emissions had not dropped did not change temperatures in other regions, while models where aerosol levels fell saw heat waves in the northeastern areas of the Pacific Ocean.

The models revealed why cleaner air meant warmer temperatures: With less heat reflected into space, rising temperatures created high-pressure systems that are associated with warmer, drier temperatures in summer and milder weather in winter.

The team noted that temperatures rose 0.72 degrees Fahrenheit from the Bering Strait every decade and traveled 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) to the Gulf of Alaska, causing fish to die, toxic algae to bloom and whales to go missing.

High-pressure systems that formed above Earth’s atmosphere in turn caused low-pressure systems in the Pacific Ocean to intensify.

When this happened, the Aleutian layer – which transports warm air from the Aleutian Islands to the northeastern Pacific Ocean – developed a wider range and weakened the winds that would normally cool the sea surface, resulting in warmer conditions.

This has had disastrous consequences not only for sea temperatures and marine life, but has also had socio-economic consequences, such as the California drought from 2013 to 2016, which cost billions of dollars in US agricultural losses and killed more than 100 million trees .

“These severe environmental and social impacts indicate the urgency of revealing the causes of these emerging climate extremes,” the study said.

Although limiting aerosol emissions contributes to global warming, according to NASA, higher levels lead to the premature deaths of eight million people worldwide every year.

The small aerosol particles, such as sulfate or nitrate, are emitted during the combustion of fossil fuels and can cause asthma, respiratory infections, lung cancer and heart disease when inhaled.

In the Ocean University of China study, the researchers say their latest findings highlight the need to consider what risks come from reducing aerosol emissions. and called on government agencies to reassess its impact on climate change.