Climate change to worsen urban air quality, lifting death toll

Days of severe pollution in Australia's biggest cities will worsen in coming decades as a warming climate triggers more intense temperature inversion events, exacerbating health issues, according to new research.

Fog and smog across the Sydney Basin on the coldest morning of the year so far.

With more than 3000 premature deaths a year in Australia already linked to urban air pollution, worsening low-level air quality could increase the toll, said Jason Evans, a professor at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes and a co-author of the report published recently in the Climate Dynamics journal.

Read the story from The Age by Peter Hannam - “Climate change to worsen urban air quality, lifting death toll.”