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[–] kbotc@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Nah, Sulfur compounds can lower albedo. That’s actually quite possibly what happened here and why we have sudden outlier acceleration.

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/cutting-pollution-from-the-shipping-industry-accidentally-increased-global-warming-study-suggests

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[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Bit horrifying they put that much in the air.

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[–] kbotc@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Yea. They were basically burning the tar like leftovers from fuel distillation and there was a lot of heavy tankers moving from East Asia to the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_fuel_oil

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