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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
But now we are hearing that increased sunlight hitting the Earth with cleaner air has had a dramatic effect on temperature rise latterly. I don’t personally believe that the incredibly small increase in what is already a tiny proportion of the atmosphere comprising carbon explains the global warming that we are experiencing.
In my opinion, it is several different factors, including deforestation, which is, of course, undeniably our fault.
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You're right to be sceptical on this. As an aside, it's also a bit of a hard ask for us to ask others to not do what we did - cut down our forests.
Anyway, back to declining air pollution and European hot summers.
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Amid widespread media coverage of the number of deaths and the influence of climate change, the UK’s Daily Telegraph reported on new research with the incorrect headline: “Heatwaves caused by fall in pollution.”
GB News followed up with its own article, incorrectly headlined: “Britain’s scorching heatwaves caused by falling pollution levels, researchers find.”
Scientists tell Carbon Brief that the framing of heatwaves being “caused” by declining air pollution is “wrong”.
While a drop in pollution has reduced the cooling impact it has had in the past, the scientists say, Europe’s summer heatwaves are primarily becoming more extreme “as a result of greenhouse-gas-induced warming”.
Another scientist adds that “any attempt” to link this research to net-zero policies is “simply wrong”.
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https://www.carbonbrief.org/factchec...-air-pollution