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HistoPol (#HP)

@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...

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HistoPol (#HP)

@Npars01 @petergleick

"...amount by CO2."

So, in fact, without the offsetting effect of aerosols, we could already be competing with #Dune to be the new habitat for #sandworms.

If airborne microplastics were to solve our #GlobalWarming problems in the same way, this would just be an irony of fate, undeservedly so, I must say. ;)

Source: thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/03/14

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