Global warming picks up pace
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Global temperatures are rising once again after plateauing in the first decade of the 21st Century, which was still the hottest on record. Published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, a new study by researchers at Boston University found that Chinese economic expansion in this period was actually responsible for the deceleration of global warming. However, while China and the rest of the world continued to excrete greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, sulfur pollution from china’s coal-fired power stations actually had a cooling effect, thus offsetting the impact of greenhouse gases. Between 2003 and 2007, China’s coal consumption doubled, increasing global usage by 26%. After recognising the health costs of sulfur pollution, China has taken precautions to reduce sulfur emissions, causing temperatures to rise once again.
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