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Microplastics in the atmosphere and their climate impacts
- "Earth absorbs some of the sun’s energy while also reflecting some of it, an exchange known as radiative forcing. Like other aerosols in the atmosphere, such as dust and ash, microplastics interact with this energy, the modeling found. 'They’re very good at scattering sunlight back to space, so we see that cooling influence coming through,' says atmospheric chemist Laura Revell, lead author of the new paper. 'But they are also pretty good at absorbing the radiation emitted by the Earth, which means that they can contribute to the greenhouse effect in a very small way.'" - Excerpt from Yale Environment 360
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