We’ve been accidentally cooling the planet — and it’s about to stop

1. 2024-06-25 at 6:30 PM UTC

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   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   We’ve been accidentally cooling the planet — and it’s about to stop
   
   

   Tiny particles from the combustion of coal, oil and gas can reflect sunlight and spur the formation of clouds, shading the planet from the sun’s rays. Since the 1980s, those particles have offset between 40 and 80 percent of the warming caused by greenhouse gases.
   
   And now, as society cleans up pollution, that cooling effect is waning. New regulations have cut the amount of sulfur aerosols from global shipping traffic across the oceans; China, fighting its own air pollution problem, has slashed sulfur pollution dramatically in the last decade.

2. 2024-06-25 at 6:42 PM UTC

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   the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]
   im ffrfrfrreeeezzzzing
3. 2024-06-25 at 9:43 PM UTC

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   Cowboy2013 African Astronaut
   "Clouds" sometimes make it hotter. IE the ones coming out of airplane assholes in the winter. Real clouds seem rare.
4. 2024-06-25 at 9:44 PM UTC

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   Cowboy2013 African Astronaut
   And they're not cleaning up shit I promise you.
5. 2024-06-25 at 11 PM UTC

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   Elbow African Astronaut
   Guess we should keep burning coal then.
6. 2024-06-25 at 11:08 PM UTC

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   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   Either way who cares?
7. 2024-06-25 at 11:08 PM UTC

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   Charles Ex Machina Space Nigga

   Originally posted by Elbow Guess we should keep burning coal then.

   
   and pay the toll
8. 2024-06-25 at 11:16 PM UTC

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   Elbow African Astronaut

   Originally posted by Charles Ex Machina and pay the toll

   
   Not burning coal means paying an even worse toll! Coal burning makes us cooler.
9. 2024-06-26 at 12:18 AM UTC

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   Enigma African Astronaut [memorize my carmelite sway]
   lol I thought our pollution was causing global warming
   
   OP u must be very confused everytime you study this
10. 2024-06-26 at 1:09 AM UTC

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    the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]

    Originally posted by Elbow Guess we should keep burning coal then.

    
    No. this proves the theory but also denying the realities of greenhouse gases and how they affect our planet doesn't lead us anywhere. Clearly this leads us to develop green synthetic cloud technology similar to chemtrails but done much higher up to create synthetic green carbon capture clouds that act as carbon barriers and can help undo the heatsink killing our oceans
    
    #ObbeWasRight