Look What’s Behind the Recent Slowdown in Global Warming
▻http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/11/cutting-emissions-really-does-slow-global-warming-study-finds
Climate deniers like to point to the so-called global warming “hiatus” as evidence that humans aren’t changing the climate. But according a new study, exactly the opposite is true: The recent slowdown in global temperature increases is partially the result of one of the few successful international crackdowns on greenhouse gases.
▻http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1999.html
Our statistical analysis suggests that the reduction in the emissions of ozone-depleting substances under the #Montreal_Protocol, as well as a reduction in methane emissions, contributed to the lower rate of warming since the 1990s.