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Re:How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web mo... by creato on Friday September 18, 2020 @04:11AM (#24514201)
> CO2 is obviously our major pollutant but Sulphur dioxide (SO2) is a major green-house gas contributor.

SO2 appears to actually have a negative greenhouse gas effect: https://www.carbonbrief.org/sulfur-emissions-may-have-slowed...

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Re:How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web mo... by DoingIsLearning on Friday September 18, 2020 @05:17AM (#24514650)
> SO2 appears to actually have a negative greenhouse gas effect

You make it sound more factual than it is, it's a computer model projection.

From the same paper you linked:

> "Although the new paper acknowledges the that the slow-down could be a result of natural variability in the climate system"

Which is currently the consensus agreement on this.

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