Tuesday, June 30, 2026
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Overcoming a barrier to projecting near-term climate evolution and risk

The Earth is warming more rapidly than before, and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more intense. While global warming is mainly driven by carbon dioxide emissions, it is also influenced by air pollution. But by how much? Europe's leading scientists on aerosol and clouds have no...

Overcoming a barrier to projecting near-term climate evolution and risk
Image: Phys.org
The Earth is warming more rapidly than before, and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more intense. While global warming is mainly driven by carbon dioxide emissions, it is also influenced by air pollution. But by how much? Europe's leading scientists on aerosol and clouds have now joined forces to uncover a dominant source of uncertainty in climate science.

Originally published at Phys.org

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