... 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...
@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: https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/03/14/Microplastics-Sky-Climate-Change/