Reuters: ‘Sun-dimming industrial pollution in China, or signs that greenhouse gases trap less heat in atmosphere than expected may help explain an apparent slowdown in global warming since 2000’
'Most climate scientists acknowledge an 'apparent slowdown' since 2000, after fast warming in the 1990s, but say the long-term trend is up. So far, 2012 is the eighth warmest year in records back to the mid-19th century, according to U.S. data. 'The simplest explanation is that China's sulphate emissions did not go down as they suggested they would,' said Myles Allen, a prof. of geosystem science at Oxford U. who also pointed to rising pollution in many emerging nations'
