A new study demonstrates why global surface temperatures defied a decades-long trend and didn’t continue to rise between 1998 and 2008: Pollution-spewing, coal-burning power plants in Asia, while emitting warming greenhouse gases, simultaneously sent cooling sulfur particles into the atmosphere.
Climate change skeptics are seizing upon this as junk science being used to explain away a rather embarassing fact for climate change proponents, that there has been no statistically significant global warming for over a decade.