The rate at which the planet is warming has sped up since 2010, and now researchers say that China’s efforts to clean up air pollution are inadvertently responsible for the majority of this extra warming
It is important to note that China’s action has not caused additional warming, Samset stresses. Rather, it has “unmasked” what was already there. “The warming was always there, we just had some artificial cooling from pollution, and in removing the pollution we are now seeing the full effect of the greenhouse gas driven warming,” he says.
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