Europe's heat charts hide a paradox: cleaning up our air is part of why it's warming faster (bbc.com)
The BBC lays out Europe's faster-than-global warming in seven charts — temperature records, rising "tropical nights" in cities. The causal line that catches the thread: less bright snow and fewer reflective aerosols mean more sunlight reaches the surface.
The reactions range from aerosol-science nuance (this is real, and it's the same dangerous ground as geoengineering) to a data-presentation gotcha: one "Europe" chart greys out Ireland and plots only England.
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