ElCanuttoData Is Beautiful@lemmy.ml·4 months agocross-posted to: climate@slrpnk.netBeautiful but worrying 🌍(jlai.lu)imagearrow-up1937arrow-down18message-square92fedilink
arrow-up1929arrow-down1imageBeautiful but worrying 🌍(jlai.lu)ElCanuttoData Is Beautiful@lemmy.ml·4 months agocross-posted to: climate@slrpnk.netmessage-square92fedilink
minus-squarekbotcEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down0·4 months agolinkfedilinkNah, 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
minus-squareMNByChoicearrow-up2arrow-down0·4 months agolinkfedilinkBit horrifying they put that much in the air.
minus-squarekbotcEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down0·4 months agolinkfedilinkYea. 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
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
Bit horrifying they put that much in the air.
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