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Cleaner air during COVID-19 pandemic caused brief temperature spike: Study – Firstpost
The temporary warming from fewer particles was stronger in 2020 than the impact of heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions, experts said.
The Associated PressFeb 04, 2021 13:39:43 IST
Earth spiked a bit of a fever in 2020, partly because of cleaner air from the pandemic lockdown, a new study found. For a short time, temperatures in some places in the eastern United States, Russia and China were as much as half to two-thirds of a degree (0.3 to 0.37 degrees Celsius) warmer. Thats due to less soot and sulfate particles from car exhaust and burning coal, which normally cool the atmosphere temporarily by reflecting the suns heat, Tuesdays…
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