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This project investigates the effects of aerosols on cloud formation and climate sensitivity. By analyzing polluted and unpolluted clouds, it aims to quantify how aerosols influence cloud properties and their potential cooling effects, which may alter our understanding of climate change dynamics.
Anthropogenic climate change is a tug-of-war with fossil fuels playing both sides of the field.
Fossil fuel use emits both climate-warming greenhouse gases and climate-cooling aerosols.
And aerosol impacts on clouds might have thus far masked a large fraction of greenhouse gas warming.
If the aerosol cooling is strong, it implies 1) that the Earth’s climate is more sensitive to anthropogenic greenhouse gases than currently thought, and 2) reduced aerosol pollution has brought forward global warm…
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