Steel Factory in Hebei, China in 2015
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The recent surge in global warming raises questions about China’s efforts to reduce air pollution, how air quality regulations affect climate and whether they fully understand the impact of removing aerosols from the atmosphere. This extra warming, hidden by aerosols, accounts for 5% of global temperature since 1850.
In the early 2000s, China’s air quality was extremely low as a result of rapid industrialization, leading to public protests in Landing…
Source: www.newscientist.com