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Yes, you read that correctly. By decreasing pollution we have increased "global warming". The other side effect that this has had (that they want you to ignore) is that the lower pollution is also part of why storms are larger and more frequent in costal areas.

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From the post: "By dramatically reducing the number of ship tracks, the planet has warmed up faster, several new studies have found. That trend is magnified in the Atlantic, where maritime traffic is particularly dense. In the shipping corridors, the increased light represents a 50% boost to the warming effect of human carbon emissions. It's as if the world suddenly lost the cooling effect from a fairly large volcanic eruption each year, says Michael Diamond, an atmospheric scientist at Florida State University."

Yes, you read that correctly. By decreasing pollution we have increased "global warming". The other side effect that this has had (that they want you to ignore) is that the lower pollution is also part of why storms are larger and more frequent in costal areas. Archive: https://archive.is/rPaSJ#selection-827.1-831.180 From the post: "By dramatically reducing the number of ship tracks, the planet has warmed up faster, several new studies have found. That trend is magnified in the Atlantic, where maritime traffic is particularly dense. In the shipping corridors, the increased light represents a 50% boost to the warming effect of human carbon emissions. It's as if the world suddenly lost the cooling effect from a fairly large volcanic eruption each year, says Michael Diamond, an atmospheric scientist at Florida State University."

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If you read into it more its a little more complicated. Also, another article I read ages ago said that the US imposed air traffic grounding that happened after 9/11 caused a measurable warming effect due to the lack of aircraft contrails.

Basically, they are saying the sulfur released by the ships burning fuel (most of the big ones run on crude) was making the clouds -more- reflective than they would otherwise be so they had an increased effect of reflecting light and causing a cooling effect.

At the same time though. Yeah, that is basically it.