No one to refute this or descredit Susan Solomon?...lol - or hoping this thread will die quickly?
First paragraphs from LouL's article link - (underline is mine):
""FAR from warming the planet rapidly, man-made pollution might actually be contributing to a slowing of global warming, a US study suggests.
Aerosol particles from activities such as burning coal, particularly in the past decade, reflect sunlight back into space, slowing the rapid warming observed up to and including 1998.
Reporting in the journal Science today, study leader Susan Solomon, of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, says she and her team observed that an increase in stratospheric aerosols had cut by 20 per cent the global warming that would have otherwise occurred since 1998."
