Dramatic cuts in China’s air pollution drove surge in global warming
www.newscientist.com
The rate at which the planet is warming has sped up since 2010, and now researchers say that China's efforts to clean up air pollution are inadvertently responsible for the majority of this extra warming
  • Parsani [love/loves, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Paywall. Does it mention the desulphurisation of shipping fuels?

    Sorry I didn’t see the archive link. They do lmao. What a stupid fucking headline.

    But other factors could disrupt this. Just as reductions from China tapered off, in 2020 the global shipping industry implemented new rules forcing ships to curb their aerosol emissions, prompting a sharp fall in pollution over the open ocean. This might be particularly important in changing cloud cover in those regions, notes Hugh Coe at the University of Manchester, UK. “It’s happening in remote places where clouds are super sensitive to change,” he says.