the ignorant narcissistic pretentious scientists have fucked up again, imagine that
just like big pharma the cure is far worse than the disease. let's assume this wasn't done by accident
Cutting pollution from the shipping industry accidentally increased global warming
Recent global shipping regulations slashed the sulfur dioxide emissions from cargo ships by a dramatic 80%. But this rapid reduction in sulfur pollution may have "created an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock with global impact. The warming effect is consistent with the recent observed strong warming in 2023 and expected to make the 2020s anomalously warm and
could lead to a doubling (or more) of the warming rate in the 2020s compared with the rate since 1980.
The warming is equivalent in magnitude to "80% of the measured increase in planetary heat uptake since 2020."
So when the regulations brought decades of massive pollution to an end, they began an unintended geoengineering experiment. Since March 2023, the loss of the sulfurous fog has sent average sea surface temperatures to
record-shattering highs. The sulfur content in fuel acted as a giant planetary sunblock as sulfur dioxide is highly reflective