So first cutting airline emissions increases global warming and now cutting ship emissions does it?
It’s like someone is trying to get a message out that cutting emissions is bad for the planet. Are we being gaslighted? Is this industry FUD?
I’m not American. I don’t know much about the history of the body, who runs it or whether leadership changes under different administrations. I also do not know the scientists and whether they are completely state funded or there is industry funding anywhere (on this, or on previous or future research papers). I’m asking questions. I looked at the paper and usually it has a section on conflicts of interest, even to state that none exist. I couldn’t see that section on this paper.
No, these emissions masked climate change. Reducing them didn’t accelerate it, the warming effect was already there.
It’s headlines like this that subtly mislead people
Hmm, cutting sulfur dioxide emissions for health reasons is bad for global warming because sulfur dioxide clouds have a net cooling effect with reflection.
This is surprisingly often the case. At a short term scale, improvements in the local environment are at odds with improvements towards preventing climate change (hydropower is the poster child for this). Long term though, it’s almost always better to prioritize the large scale, as failing to limit climate change will ultimately make any efforts to protect local environments futile.
What do you mean by the hydropower? I’m not familiar with this ‘poster child’
FYSA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poster_child
As described in the second half of that article, it’s a colloquialism.
Usually, for a hydro power plant to be effective they require a dam to be built. This significantly changes the surrounding landscape by flooding large areas of land and also reduces the ability of fish to travel through whichever waterway is dammed up.
Enviromental activists often decry and try to prevent these types of developments because of this - they consider these changes to ruin the local environment.
On the other hand, hydropower is possibly the most useful source of renewable electricity, having a large implicit storage capacity that can be released at any moment.