Ben Turner is a U.K. based staff writer at Live Science. He covers physics and astronomy, among other topics like tech and climate change. He graduated from University College London with a degree in particle physics before training as a journalist.
The shipping industry's attempt to reduce air pollution has inadvertently accelerated global warming in the short term and contributed to record-breaking sea temperatures, according to a new climate model.
And this reduction in pollution"could lead to a doubling of the warming rate in the 2020s compared with the rate since 1980," the researchers suggested in the new study, published May 30 in the journal Communications Earth and Environment.The new shipping regulations, which were implemented in 2020 by the International Maritime Organization reduced the maximum sulfur content in shipping fuel from 3.5% to 0.
By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.So when the regulations brought decades of massive pollution to an end, they began an unintended geoengineering experiment.
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