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# What is the Aerosol Masking Effect? We've landed ourselves in a situation of harrowing irony where our emissions have both risen CO2 and bought us time in the process. This is because dirty coal produces sulfates which cloud the atmosphere and act as a sunscreen. This sunscreen has prevented the level of warming we **should** have seen by now, but have avoided (kinda, keep reading). [Here’s good example of this on a smaller scale:]( https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610007/were-about-to-kill-a-massive-accidental-experiment-in-halting-global-warming/) >In effect, the shipping industry has been carrying out an unintentional experiment in climate engineering for more than a century. Global mean temperatures could be as much as 0.25 ˚C lower than they would otherwise have been, based on the mean “forcing effect” * Much has been done in the way of researching the extent of this effect. Currently it is understood that [Anthropogenic aerosols have already brought about a decrease of ∼2.53 K, Experiments based on the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5 given in IPCC AR5 shows the dramatic decrease in three anthropogenic aerosols in 2100 will lead to an increase of ∼2.06 K]( https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/joc.4613) That's not to say that we have **truly** avoided this warming. We simply "kick the can" down the road with these emissions. The warming is still there waiting, until the moment we no longer emit these sulfates. * [Just 35% reduction in industrial output(emissions) would lead to 1C temperature rise](https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jgrd.50192). Depending on which scientist you ask, it could be as little as a week, or it could be up to 6 weeks. Regardless though, the warming is still there on the horizon. * Worse though, [It's been recently discovered this effect is actually more potent than we previously had estimated](https://m.phys.org/news/2019-01-cooling-effect-aerosols-cumulus-msc.ht