r/Futurology • u/Economy-Fee5830 • May 30 '24

Environment Inadvertent geoengineering experiment may be responsible for '80% of the measured increase in planetary heat uptake since 2020'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01442-3
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u/Whiterabbit-- May 31 '24

This was predicted before the sulfur emissions were reduced. here is an article from 2018

https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/01/22/67402/were-about-to-kill-a-massive-accidental-experiment-in-halting-global-warming/

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u/uncertain_expert May 31 '24

Curious how both these articles refer to shipping emissions as having been an experiment.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '24

? Yeah reducing their emissions was the experiment.

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u/Replop May 31 '24

Reducing emissions was a goal by itself ( less polution )

The "inadvertent experiment" part is after the fact when we can study data generated by this change.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '24

It was called an experiment in 2018 before it took place. Climate experts warned this would happen. It was an "experiment" because the results were not guaranteed.