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Bill Text - AB-32 Air pollution: greenhouse gases: California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) Global warming poses a serious threat to the economic well-being, public health, natural resources, and the environment of California. The potential adverse impacts of global warming include the exacerbation of air quality problems, a reduction in the quality and supply of water to the state from the Sierra snowpack, a rise in sea levels resulting in the displacement of thousands of coastal businesses and residences, damage to marine ecosystems and the natural environment, and an increase in the incidences of infectious diseases, asthma, and other human health-related problems.(b) Global warming will have detrimental effects on some of
	 California’s largest industries, including agriculture, wine, tourism, skiing, recreational and commercial fishing, and forestry. It will also increase the strain on electricity supplies necessary to meet the demand for summer air-conditioning in the hottest parts of the state.(c) California has long been a national and international leader on energy conservation and environmental stewardship efforts, including the areas of air quality protections, energy efficiency requirements, renewable energy standards, natural resource conservation, and greenhouse gas emission standards for passenger vehicles. The program established by this division will continue this tradition of environmental leadership by placing California at the forefront of national and international efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.(d) National and international actions are necessary to fully address
	 the issue of global warming. However, action taken by California to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases will have far-reaching effects by encouraging other states, the federal government, and other countries to act.(e) By exercising a global leadership role, California will also position its economy, technology centers, financial institutions, and businesses to benefit from national and international efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. More importantly, investing in the development of innovative and pioneering technologies will assist California in achieving the 2020 statewide limit on emissions of greenhouse gases established by this division and will provide an opportunity for the state to take a global economic and technological leadership role in reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.(f) It is the intent of the Legislature that the State Air Resources Board
	 coordinate with state agencies, as well as consult with the environmental justice community, industry sectors, business groups, academic institutions, environmental organizations, and other stakeholders in implementing this division.
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This information is called an ozone profile—like slicing through the atmosphere and seeing it from the side. As Aura's polar orbit takes it over the North and South Poles, Earth rotates beneath. After 16 days of orbits, TES has measured ozone over the whole planet. Then it starts over.
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The image above highlights the seasonal and geographic variation in atmospheric carbon monoxide as measured by Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) between 2000 and 2019. The seasonal peaks in the spring in both hemispheres are driven by changes in the availability of sunlight and hydroxyl radical (OH), a “detergent” molecule that removes carbon monoxide from the atmosphere by converting it into carbon dioxide. The reduction in light in winter reduces the amount of hydroxyl in the air, which allows levels of carbon monoxide to increase in the winter and early spring. Across the entire year, carbon monoxide levels are higher in the Northern Hemisphere, where there are more landmasses, people, and fires than in the Southern Hemisphere. (The white gaps in the top plot are time periods when there was no available data.)
Note how the seasonal spike in the Northern Hemisphere grows smaller and smaller toward the end of the record, a sign of cleaner skies and falling levels of the pollutant. A few outlier years do stand out. In 2002-2003, extreme fire activity in western and southeastern Russia dramatically increased levels of carbon monoxide in the Northern Hemisphere. Likewise, an El-Niño driven drought produced a record-breaking Indonesian fire season in 2015.

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The second image shows the residual trends—where carbon monoxide concentrations are decreasing faster (orange) or slower (blue) than the global average since 2002. “Eastern China has seen carbon monoxide concentrations drop faster than anywhere else in the world, a decline of about 1 percent per year,” explained Helen Worden, the U.S. principal investigator for MOPITT. “That’s largely due to a shift from people burning coal in their homes to using natural gas or electricity coming from power plants that produce other pollutants, but not very much carbon monoxide.”
In India, economic and population growth occurred without a widespread switch to cleaner technologies, thereby limiting progress on CO pollution. In Central Africa, a combination of urbanization and widespread burning for crops and other reasons may have limited the rate of decrease, explained Worden. In contrast to Central Africa, Maritime Southeast Asia has also seen declines, probably because of a trend toward less biomass burning in forests.
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A Global Decline in Carbon Monoxide
“That’s largely due to a shift from people burning coal in their homes to using natural gas or electricity coming from power plants that produce other pollutants, but not very much carbon monoxide.”
In India, economic and population growth occurred without a widespread switch to cleaner technologies, thereby limiting progress on CO pollution. In Central Africa, a combination of urbanization and widespread burning for crops and other reasons may have limited the rate of decrease, explained Worden. In contrast to Central Africa, Maritime Southeast Asia has also seen declines, probably because of a trend toward less biomass burning in forests.
Biomass burning also declined in South America and likely contributed to the decline in carbon monoxide there. “However, deforestation and fires are rising again in Brazil after an earlier drop in the early 2000s,” said Worden. “It is possible that we’ll start to see carbon monoxide rebound in that region when we update the analysis to include more recent data.”
The changes over the ocean are likely the result of processes happening over the land before carbon monoxide was carried over the oceans by wind. “Oceans are quite a minor source compared to other natural and anthropogenic sources,” said Worden.
 
Editor’s Note: Read more about aerosol trends in tomorrow’s Image of the Day.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data courtesy of Buchholz, R., et al. (2021). Story by Adam Voiland.

The widespread adoption of cleaner-burning technologies and declines in fire activity over the past two decades has drawn down global levels of the pollutant.
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Buchholz, R. et al. (2021) Air pollution trends measured from Terra: CO and AOD over industrial, fire-prone, and background regions. Remote Sensing of Environment, 256, 112275.
Environmental Protection Agency (2020) Carbon Monoxide Trends.