In other words, the effects of global Warming might be 4% to 20% or more worse now without the Aerosols from specifically Asia circling around the globe across the Pacific Ocean. Wherever population densities are heavier these Aerosols are going to be covering over the sun to a greater or lesser degree.
It's true I haven't been to the middle East but I have seen what it can be like in Seoul, S. Korea visiting my son (when he lived there) where when the soot and aerosols are bad you can barely (or not at all see the sun through them) just from the soot from burning coal and other things in Beijing and other cities in China.
Even though they say that places like Tehran are the worst polluted places on earth (for air), Beijing and the soot moving towards Seoul in South Korea is the worst I have ever seen personally. The only thing I have seen that is worse in California is the smoke from the fires that completely blots out the sun where you cannot breathe without a mask outside and you sort of need goggles to protect your eyes from pieces of ash coming down when the fires are bad. But, mostly this only happens during the summers (although some years the fires burn all year long even through December and January. One of the worst fires I ever saw in San Diego county burned from Fallbrook all the way to Oceanside the year one of my Grandsons was born in San Diego County then and this was in December about 4 years ago now. The winds blowing the fire were like a blowtorch and people were terrified because it was too fast for fire engines to even be able to stop it at all. The best they could do was to evacuate everyone alive between Fallbrook and Oceanside, California.
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