[HN Gopher] When Pollution Spikes in Southeast Asia, Rainfall Sh...
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When Pollution Spikes in Southeast Asia, Rainfall Shifts from Land
to Sea
Author : Brajeshwar
Score : 22 points
Date : 2025-10-19 16:25 UTC (6 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (e360.yale.edu)
| sieste wrote:
| > The reason, they believe, is that as warm air rises over the
| sea, it draws moisture away from the land, yielding heavier
| downpours.
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| Without reading the original article, which probably goes into
| more detail, I find this very speculative and I'm not convinced
| there is more going on than correlation. If anything the
| causality is more plausible the other way round: When it doesn't
| rain over land, pollution spikes.
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