– Well this sucks –

“Aerosols are masking one-third of the heating of the planet,” said Paulo Artaxo, an environmental physicist and lead author of the chapter on short-lived climate pollutants in the most recent round of reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), completed this year.

“If you implement technologies to reduce air pollution, this will accelerate – very significantly – global warming in the short term.”

  • robocall@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Air pollution seems bad for our health. and it seems like the temporary period of added heat is inevitable, so it should be addressed sooner than later.

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      1 year ago

      yeah anything that blocks heat tends to fall off pretty fast if not continously pumped into the atmosphere.