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Humans, El Nino Conspire to Boost Carbon Monoxide Levels

Who is responsible when smoke fills the sky? Do people who set agricultural fires deserve the blame, or are natural cycles the real culprit? The correct answer may be “yes.” In the case of wildfires in Indonesia, human activity and natural cycles likely conspire to create devastating fire seasons.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Humans, El Nino Conspire to Boost Carbon Monoxide Levels.

NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Toronto MOPITT Teams.

Published March 2, 2007

Source:: Terra > MOPITT