Sulfur dioxide is one of many aerosol particles that reflects the sun’s light and can act to make temperatures globally cooler than they would be otherwise. Mount Pinatubo’s eruption temporarilydroppedglobal temps by about 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit. That doesn’t sound like a huge jump, but if you were to warm the planet by an additional 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit today, that couldtriggerincreased flooding and fire events, sweeping heat waves, super storms, and even famines.
So coal fired power station were actually slowing down global warming! They were acting as temperate regulator for many decades!
One must then ask the question, since it has been the quest for cleaner emiiing coal fired power stationsfor decades and the rush into renewable. Is it possible that this approach has been responsible for all the unsettle weather throughout the world?
