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Why scientists are amazed at oilsands smog levels

2016-05-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Tyee: On any hot day Shell and Syncrude tour guides used to call the gasoline-like vapours that wafted from Fort McMurray's huge open-pit bitumen mines "the smell of money." But a new study in Nature has another name for the stench: air pollution and megacity volumes of it. In fact the tarsands, already the largest source of climate disrupting greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, have a new grim moniker: "one of the largest sources of anthropogenic secondary organic aerosols in North America." Researchers...

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