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"Is this important? Yes. It means that the little blip of extra warming that we got in the past five years is only a down payment on the penalty that young people will pay for our Faustian bargain." Thread on new @DrJamesEHansen paper on aerosols forcing. https://twitter.com/cohan_ds/status/1338628936398409729
"The real-world acceleration tells us that there must be another forcing, which is unmeasured. There
is only one good candidate: aerosols." In addition to the @cohan_ds paper, see also "Climate Impacts From a Removal of Anthropogenic Aerosol Emissions" https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017GL076079
is only one good candidate: aerosols." In addition to the @cohan_ds paper, see also "Climate Impacts From a Removal of Anthropogenic Aerosol Emissions" https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017GL076079
From my limited perspective, it seems this issue - possible/likely/very likely warming masked behind anthropogenic aerosols, which we are now actively cleaning up, & could reveal A LOT of additional forcing - is not well understood in the climate policy & advocacy community.
The real, near-term health benefits of limiting these aerosols is clear. It is fantastic that some policies to get rid of them are actually working. But we also have to grapple with what that means for global warming, and what that could mean for adaptation needs. And act.
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