Wie die Reinigung der Luft die globale Erwärmung beschleunigt – und ein größeres Problem aufdeckt

The fossil fuels that we’ve been burning for more than a century produce two very different kinds of pollution. As is well known, carbon dioxide warms the Earth. But less well-known is sulphur pollution, which forms vast numbers of tiny particles in the air and reflects sunlight back into space, partly counteracting the warming effect of carbon.

Thanks to clean-air policies around the world – like the US’s Acid Rain Program in the early 1990s, that reduced gas pollution from power plants – sulphur emissions are falling sharply while carbon dioxide emissions remain near record highs.

Scientists increasingly believe the loss of that cooling effect is slightly speeding up global warming.

That’s horseshit. Fossil fuel industry is trying distract you from the fact they are causing the runaway CO2 that’s cooking this planet. This was well known since the 70s and they denied it and covered it up ultimately trying to blame environmentalists for their evil destruction. There’s no „good emissions“ from fossil fuels. The coal, oil and gas industry spent trillions to buy politicians, publish lies and create a whole system of FUD to allow them to kill the planet and make them wealthy beyond imagination. They are still doing it and this BS article is an example.

BBC is finally trying to make us subscribe, at *this* point? 

That might have worked better *before* the precipitous drop-off in quality and at least pretend neutrality.

So we need to keep on burning fossil fuels and turn down regulations on the factories burning Fossil fuels too so they can be more competitive with green alternatives, I’m just gonna call bullshit

Ok time to pump that sulphur into the air! Devil style!

Yay for the law of unintended consequences!

It’s almost like understanding a horrendously complex global system might be hard. And making a big change to a single thing might not give the desired outcome. I wonder what surprise we’ll get from tinkering with the next thing.

Although the whole CFC ozone thing was a bit of a win.

I mean that makes sense. India is probably the worst place to be with its unchecked pollution due to corruption but when I see comments from western countries I was suprised.

Initially I thought they were pussies crying about 38~40 degree temprature in Europe. But frankly when we have clear skies and lower AQI during our rainy season, I kinda get their point about discomfort from intense sunlight & need for sunscreen (which I have never applied whatever SP-xyz that is ).

Bright sunlight during clear skies is pretty painful if local pollution is low, no matter amount of melanin (or was it melatonin I forget) present on outer epidermal layer of your skin.

> Under policies governments currently have in place, the world is estimated to be heading for around 2.8C of warming by the end of the century. Forster says that if this new evidence proves correct, the same broad emissions path could instead produce warming closer to 3.5C.

Nothing to worry about, everything’s fine.

Because comments that are short get removed apparently I’ll use it after my introduction.

I’m so tired.

so are we basically saying the pollution was acting like a sunshade