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Polluted air causes more than 2.6 million people to die prematurely each year.
污染的空氣每年會造成超過2億6千萬人過早死亡。
And when the smog builds up in Los Angeles or Beijing it sits there until a cleansing rain or a clearing wind freshens the air.
而當霧霾迷漫在洛杉磯或者北京上空時，它們會一直滯留，直到迎來大風大雨將空氣凈化并恢復到以往潔凈的天空。
So what does the future hold for the number of days in which the air is not fair?
那么霧霾籠罩下的污染空氣是否會持續？
According to some new computer model simulations, nothing good.
據一些計算機模擬數據顯示，確實不樂觀。
The atmosphere is going to get more stagnant thanks to increasing levels of greenhouse gases and the heat they trap, leading to as many as 40 more bad air days annually around much of the globe.
由于溫室氣體的增加以及所聚攏的熱量，大氣會變得更加污濁，這些因素導致了全球大部分地區每年有超過40天以上的壞天氣。
That's according to a study in the journal Nature Climate Change.
這是根據最近發表在《自然氣候變化》雜志上的一項研究得出的結論。
India will be worst hit by such atmospheric stagnation, according to the computers.
計算機數據顯示，印度將是受此災害影響最為嚴重的地區。
But nobody escapes, including the U.S.
但是包括美國在內，沒有任何國家能幸免于這場災難。
Of course, there's a way to ward off this predicted outcome.
當然，還是有辦法能防止這種模擬出來的危害發生。
It already made sense to try to stop pollutants like soot and ozone from entering the air in the first place and to cut back on the emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane.
嘗試在源頭地區阻止像煤煙以及臭氧等污染物進入空氣以及阻斷像二氧化碳，甲烷等溫室氣體的排放這些措施都是具有實際意義的。
Now it seems we'd get the additional benefit of preventing the increase in the number of bad air days.
現在，看起來我們已經從防止壞天氣數量增加的措施中會得到附加利益。
Just trying to clear the air here.
試著凈化你周圍的空氣。
