Washington Post: We’ve Been Cooling The Planet While Also Heating It

No, no, don’t you dare tell me this is a un-scientific doomsday cult

We’ve been accidentally cooling the planet — and it’s about to stop

It is widely accepted that humans have been heating up the planet for over a century by burning coal, oil and gas. Earth has already warmed by almost 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times, and the planet is poised to race past the hoped-for limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming.

It’s so widely accepted that the majority of Warmists refuse to give up their own use of fossil fuels. How much does the Washington Post use daily? How about cult writer Shannon Osaka?

But fewer people know that burning fossil fuels doesn’t just cause global warming — it also causes global cooling. It is one of the great ironies of climate change that air pollution, which has killed tens of millions, has also curbed some of the worst effects of a warming planet.

Tiny particles from the combustion of coal, oil and gas can reflect sunlight and spur the formation of clouds, shading the planet from the sun’s rays. Since the 1980s, those particles have offset between 40 and 80 percent of the warming caused by greenhouse gases.

And now, as society cleans up pollution, that cooling effect is waning. New regulations have cut the amount of sulfur aerosols from global shipping traffic across the oceans; China, fighting its own air pollution problem, has slashed sulfur pollution dramatically in the last decade.

What this is really about is that as the air gets cleaner it exposes the lower atmosphere to the full effect of the Sun as the Earth goes through a typical Holocene warm period

The result is even warmer temperatures — but exactly how much warmer is still under debate. The answer will have lasting impacts on humanity’s ability to meet its climate goals.

One would think these super-scientists would have that answer before they go about with their scaremongering. But, they don’t know. And the actual science and facts are irrelevant to them, because cults do not need any of that.

A second Trump term could slow the shift from fossil fuels as climate threats grow

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Armed with such an agenda, a second Trump term could slow the country’s shift away from fossil fuels. But it probably won’t entirely halt the transition to renewable energy, industry analysts and researchers say. That’s because the costs for a lot of those technologies are falling fast, they say. Companies are seeing financial benefits in cutting emissions. And states led by Democrats and Republicans alike are reaping economic benefits from new factories and power plants.

Well, that sounds like it would be great for keeping the Earth cooler, right?

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