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I completely agree with your summary.
However, not being an environmental scientist and they stating that at this point cannot determine the direction in which this is going, I don't dare to contradict:
"But whether they would warm, or cool, the Earth is unknown...
These plastics are incredibly long lived. They’re breaking down, and they’re going to be forming new microplastics for centuries. We just don’t know how big the problem is that we’ve...
@Npars01 @petergleick
... committed ourselves to.”
What really gives me headaches:
"The murk of anthropogenic aerosols in the sky has, overall, had a dramatic cooling effect since the Industrial Revolution (without them, *global warming would be 30 to 50 per cent greater than it is today*). And they have more sway on extreme weather than greenhouse gases do: a world warmed by removing aerosols would have more floods and droughts, for example, than a world warmed the same...