Overlooked pollutants are responsible for about 15% of current global warming, study shows

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Jun 11, 2026, 2:00 pm122 ptsTrending
In a new paper published in Science, leading scientists and climate policy experts show that 15% of current global warming (0.3°C) from human emissions stems from pollutants that fall outside most existing climate policy frameworks. Most of these overlooked pollutants are called "indirect greenhouse gases" and…

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