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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Particles suspended in the atmosphere have decreased the amount of warming caused by greenhouse gases in the Arctic, but this could change as
future air pollution is reduced. Aerosols have a cooling effect by reflecting sunlight back into space. Mohammad Reza Najafi at the University of Victoria in Canada and his colleagues
analysed nine climate models running from 1913 to 2012, comparing simulations with and without greenhouse gases, aerosols and other climate drivers. Their results show that aerosols have
offset 1.3–2.2 °C of Arctic warming from greenhouse gases, limiting the observed warming to 1.2 °C. With aerosol emissions projected to drop in the coming decades, the rate of the warming is
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Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Aerosols reduce Arctic warming. _Nature_ 518, 140–141 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/518140e Download citation * Published: 11
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