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According to Wehner, anthropogenic global warming has significantly increased surface ocean and tropospheric air temperatures in regions where hurricanes, tropical cyclones, and typhoons form and propagate, providing additional heat energy for storm intensification.

From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2024

Don’t be fooled — the noxious stuff that goes by the name of tropospheric ozone is the smog we can’t see.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2023

Methane does, however, contribute to decreased air quality locally by increasing concentrations of tropospheric ozone, a component of smog.

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2022

NOx dissipates faster than carbon dioxide but helps create tropospheric ozone, a more potent greenhouse gas.

From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2015

It is hard to reconcile the sudden difference in NH and SH sea-surface temperatures with the effects of tropospheric pollution in the NH, since the pollution presumably ramped up over a longer timeframe.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2010