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Did we boil the oceans by cutting pollution?
TL;DR: Here’s the top six news items of note in climate news for Aotearoa-NZ this week, and a discussion above between Bernard Hickey and The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer:
* New evidence is increasingly pointing at efforts to reduce marine pollution being the main cause of abrupt increases in ocean temperatures experienced since 2023. A new study in the academic journal Nature claims that the abrupt reduction in sulphur aerosols from marine shipping has inadvertently created a ‘geoengineering termination shock’ that could double the rate of warming in the 2020s.
* The findings…
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