Aerosol exposure versus aerosol cooling of climate: what is the optimal emission reduction strategy for human health?
Löndahl, Jakob LU
; Swietlicki, Erik
LU
; Lindgren, E.
and Loft, S.
(2010)
In Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
10(19).
p.9441-9449
- Abstract
- Particles, climate change, and health have thought-provoking interactions. Air pollution is one of the largest environmental problems concerning human health. On the other hand, aerosol particles can have a cooling effect on climate and a reduction of those emissions may result in an increased temperature globally, which in turn may have negative health effects. The objective of this work was to investigate the "total health effects" of aerosol emissions, which include both exposure to particles and consequences for climate change initiated by particles. As a case study the "total health effect" from ship emissions was derived by subtracting the number of deaths caused by exposure with the estimated number of lives saved from the cooling... (More)
- Particles, climate change, and health have thought-provoking interactions. Air pollution is one of the largest environmental problems concerning human health. On the other hand, aerosol particles can have a cooling effect on climate and a reduction of those emissions may result in an increased temperature globally, which in turn may have negative health effects. The objective of this work was to investigate the "total health effects" of aerosol emissions, which include both exposure to particles and consequences for climate change initiated by particles. As a case study the "total health effect" from ship emissions was derived by subtracting the number of deaths caused by exposure with the estimated number of lives saved from the cooling effect of the emissions. The analysis showed that, with current level of scientific understanding, it could not be determined whether ship emissions are negative or positive for human health on a short time scale. This first attempt to approximate the combined effect of particle emissions on health shows that reductions of particulate air pollution will in some cases (black carbon) have win-win effects on health and climate, but sometimes also cause a shift from particle exposure-related health effects towards an increasing risk of health consequences from climate change. Thus, measures to reduce aerosol emissions have to be coupled with climate change mitigation actions to achieve a full health benefit on a global level. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/1721170
- author
- Löndahl, Jakob
LU
; Swietlicki, Erik
LU
; Lindgren, E.
and Loft, S.
- organization
- publishing date
- 2010
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
- volume
- 10
- issue
- 19
- pages
- 9 pages
- publisher
- Copernicus GmbH
- external identifiers
-
- wos:000283066300014
- scopus:77957795724
- ISSN
- 1680-7324
- DOI
- 10.5194/acp-10-9441-2010
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Nuclear Physics (Faculty of Technology) (011013007)
- id
- f4e60973-cb6b-48b1-b771-ed7f781079b7 (old id 1721170)
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-01 10:10:39
- date last changed
- 2023-09-27 19:41:17
@article{f4e60973-cb6b-48b1-b771-ed7f781079b7,
abstract = {{Particles, climate change, and health have thought-provoking interactions. Air pollution is one of the largest environmental problems concerning human health. On the other hand, aerosol particles can have a cooling effect on climate and a reduction of those emissions may result in an increased temperature globally, which in turn may have negative health effects. The objective of this work was to investigate the "total health effects" of aerosol emissions, which include both exposure to particles and consequences for climate change initiated by particles. As a case study the "total health effect" from ship emissions was derived by subtracting the number of deaths caused by exposure with the estimated number of lives saved from the cooling effect of the emissions. The analysis showed that, with current level of scientific understanding, it could not be determined whether ship emissions are negative or positive for human health on a short time scale. This first attempt to approximate the combined effect of particle emissions on health shows that reductions of particulate air pollution will in some cases (black carbon) have win-win effects on health and climate, but sometimes also cause a shift from particle exposure-related health effects towards an increasing risk of health consequences from climate change. Thus, measures to reduce aerosol emissions have to be coupled with climate change mitigation actions to achieve a full health benefit on a global level.}},
author = {{Löndahl, Jakob and Swietlicki, Erik and Lindgren, E. and Loft, S.}},
issn = {{1680-7324}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{19}},
pages = {{9441--9449}},
publisher = {{Copernicus GmbH}},
series = {{Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics}},
title = {{Aerosol exposure versus aerosol cooling of climate: what is the optimal emission reduction strategy for human health?}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-10-9441-2010}},
doi = {{10.5194/acp-10-9441-2010}},
volume = {{10}},
year = {{2010}},
}