The lessening of pollution posing negative effects on the planet

Despite its prominence in the conversation about climate change, carbon dioxide is only one of the ways that human activity has disrupted the atmospheric balance.

- Pritha Misra

This change can cause global warming to double between 2010 and 2050 - compared to the previous four decades. The newest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was one of the few positive stories with a catch. For the past two centuries, human activity has allowed global warming to advance at a slower rate-by as much as 0.8 degrees Celsius. The negative part is that emissions of aerosols, which are tiny carbon, sulphur, and nitrogen compound particles, have been the major contributors in driving that cooling. They are tiny particles hanging in the air, like spray aerosols, although very few of them originate from aerosol cans. The majority are created by the same methods of burning carbon-rich fuel that result in greenhouse gas emissions. The floating particles influence cloud formation, reflect solar radiation back into space, and float in the atmosphere. It balances out the warming effects of other gases, such as methane and carbon dioxide. Hence, rising aerosol emissions cool the atmosphere whereas falling aerosol emissi