• Laconic@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    A new global standard for sulfur content of shipping fuel has gone into effect reducing sulfur emissions something like 86%. Those sumfir emissions aren’t good, but they did have a cooling effect over shipping routes that’s going away now.

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      Those sulfur emissions aren’t good, but they did have a cooling effect over shipping routes that’s going away now.

      this has to be one of the worst monkey’s paws of all time, honestly, where this is about the only emission we’re actually on the right track of dealing with but it’s also one that on-net cools the planet, so removing it is actually worse for climate change

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        It’s a real pickle. If we ceased burning all fossil fuels today the reduction in aerosols would cause a spike in warming before things leveled out. Continuing to burn without aerosols is kind of the worst of all worlds for climate although I completely understand the desire for cleaner fossil fuel emissions as nasty as the air gets in a lot of places.