Unintended warming: How reduced ship [sulfate aerosol] emissions may accelerate climate change
Unintended warming: How reduced ship [sulfate aerosol] emissions may accelerate climate change
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No, these emissions masked climate change. Reducing them didn’t accelerate it, the warming effect was already there.
It’s headlines like this that subtly mislead people
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That sounds analogous to the withdrawal effect which addicts suffer when stopping drugs.
Quickly reducing pollution reduces the short-lived masking effect, which makes things temporarily worse when the pollution stops. It's still worth it and the best option long term.
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Hmm, cutting sulfur dioxide emissions for health reasons is bad for global warming because sulfur dioxide clouds have a net cooling effect with reflection.
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This is surprisingly often the case. At a short term scale, improvements in the local environment are at odds with improvements towards preventing climate change (hydropower is the poster child for this). Long term though, it's almost always better to prioritize the large scale, as failing to limit climate change will ultimately make any efforts to protect local environments futile.
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I'm pretty sure we can find other reflective chemicals that won't cause grass-wilting acid rains.
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So first cutting airline emissions increases global warming and now cutting ship emissions does it?
It's like someone is trying to get a message out that cutting emissions is bad for the planet. Are we being gaslighted? Is this industry FUD?
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With ships, they're talking about sulfate aerosol emissions, rather than greenhouse gas emissions.
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... on NOAA.gov?
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During an administration that doesn't doubt climate science, no less
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I'm not American. I don't know much about the history of the body, who runs it or whether leadership changes under different administrations. I also do not know the scientists and whether they are completely state funded or there is industry funding anywhere (on this, or on previous or future research papers). I'm asking questions. I looked at the paper and usually it has a section on conflicts of interest, even to state that none exist. I couldn't see that section on this paper.
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