Pollution in China is coming to the United States

China's pollution is spreading in large quantities across the Pacific Ocean, according to the United States, reveals a new study. This effect is to cause side effects on the environment and health of Americans.

In some days of the year, acid rain caused by the burning of fossil fuels in China may be responsible for up to a quarter of sulfate pollution in the Western United States, points to a study conducted by a team of American and Chinese researchers, published by the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.

Cities like Los Angeles are experiencing a smog day extra per year due to nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide produced by the export industry of China, points out the study.

Between 17% to 36% of various air pollutants from China, in 2006, came from the production of goods for export, referred to the study, and a fifth of those assets were linked to trade between China and the United States. Currently, one-third of greenhouse gases produced in China from exporting industries.

The neighboring countries of China, notably Japan and South Korea, have suffered regularly from toxic clouds from China over the past decades, since the environmental regulations were sacrificed in favor of economic and industrial growth.

However, the new study indicates that many of the pollutants, including black carbon â€" impure form of carbon produced during the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, wood and biomass-which contributes to climate change and is related to the cancer and coronary and pulmonary diseases, can travel great distances through the air masses known as "westerlies" ("westerlies").

Cross-border pollution has been an issue discussed in the international climate negotiations, in which China has argued that developed countries should take responsibility for a portion of greenhouse gases of China, since these are sourced in the manufacture of products ordered Western countries.

"International cooperation to reduce cross-border transport of polluted air must face the question of who is responsible for the emissions in a given country for the production of goods that support consumption in another country," said the study which is quoted by the Guardian.

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