The rate at which the planet is warming has sped up since 2010, and now researchers say that China's efforts to clean up air pollution are inadvertently responsible for the majority of this extra warming
This has been a known effect of reducing aerosols for a while, no surprise that the country producing the most of them and doing the most to reduce them has the most impact on this particular effect. It’s also (one of the reasons) why geoengineering by releasing tons of aerosols into the environment is a bad idea - once we start we would be stuck doing it forever regardless of its knock on effects because the snap back if stopped would be really bad.
This has been a known effect of reducing aerosols for a while, no surprise that the country producing the most of them and doing the most to reduce them has the most impact on this particular effect. It’s also (one of the reasons) why geoengineering by releasing tons of aerosols into the environment is a bad idea - once we start we would be stuck doing it forever regardless of its knock on effects because the snap back if stopped would be really bad.