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**Hugh** · Today, 15:41

Always better to go to the source, rather than accept a Richard Tice spin of the Telegraph’s interpretation of a Research Paper…

The Lead Author of the Research Paper states

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The contribution of greenhouse gases is, in any case, the most important factor.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/factchec...-air-pollution

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Study lead author Dr Pedro Roldán‐Gómez, an associate researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputer Centre, is quoted in the Daily Telegraph saying that “most” of the “excess warming” in Europe, beyond that of comparable regions in the northern hemisphere, can be linked to declining aerosols.

But, earlier in the article, the newspaper interprets this as, simply, “most of the extra heat experienced in Britain and Europe” is down to air pollution.

GB News uses a similar phrasing, reporting that “much of the additional warming across Britain and western Europe since the 1980s is linked to the sharp decline in airborne particles known as aerosols”.

This is “misleading”, says Fischer, while Roldan-Gomez tells Carbon Brief that this is a “tricky point”, which “could lead to wrong interpretations if not properly explained”. He adds:

“The contribution of greenhouse gases is, in any case, the most important factor.”

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Originally Posted by papa smurf

hang tight our forum expert will be along in a mo

I’m no expert, but I like researching factual information, rather than let my innate prejudices decide whether something is true or not…

Here's the bits that the Telegraph forgot to include...

https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/07/cl...nse-heatwaves/

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The findings are consistent with a second recent study examining European heatwaves, which concluded that greenhouse gases were the dominant driver of the long-term increase in heatwaves between 1940 and 2020, while aerosols had previously masked part of that warming. As aerosol pollution declined, that cooling effect weakened.

The researchers stressed that the findings do not mean that reducing air pollution was a mistake. Sulphate pollution causes serious damage to human health and the environment, and the decline in emissions has brought substantial benefits.

Nor does the research suggest that greenhouse gases are irrelevant to Europe’s warming. The authors found that the reduction in aerosols acted as an additional factor that amplified warming primarily driven by greenhouse gas emissions.