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Beautiful but worrying 🌍 (jlai.lu)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

No. It can be localized (for large scales of localized).

Also, we are finding through putting solar farms on crop fields, sun light is not the limiter on photosynthesis for many plants. Many plants get too hot, loose moisture, and photosynthesis less.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah, Sulfur compounds can lower albedo. That’s actually quite possibly what happened here and why we have sudden outlier acceleration.

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/cutting-pollution-from-the-shipping-industry-accidentally-increased-global-warming-study-suggests

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Bit horrifying they put that much in the air.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Yea. They were basically burning the tar like leftovers from fuel distillation and there was a lot of heavy tankers moving from East Asia to the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_fuel_oil