According to Geophysical Research Letters, the Earth warmed half a degree last year due to reduced soot and sulfate particles. This was due to the pandemix quarantines. [Study Here](https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2020GL091805)
So I’m genuinely asking: could increasing clean energy also cause global warming? Are we in a lose/lose situation?
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The lack of aircraft flying in the sky which also happened after 9/11 meant that there was less clouds being generated by aircraft contrails. This revealed how hotter the planet had already got, but was masked by the cloud cover which lowered the temperature, so the situation is already worse than we thought it was.
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