Aerosols in the atmosphere—including dust, sea salt, and especially industrial pollution particles—reflect solar radiation back to space, creating a net cooling effect that has been masking underlying warming from greenhouse gases
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Gavin SchmidtEvidence Quote
“the net effect of these aerosols is to cool the climate a little bit because they interfere with the sun's radiation they reflect a lot of it back to space”
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