Extreme temperature: Decrease in marine pollution is not the "main factor" in current warming

Some had presented it as the potential main culprit for the jump in global temperatures observed in 2023 and then 2024. For months, attention focused on the decline in maritime aerosol emissions - a consequence of a regulation adopted in 2020 which reduced the sulfur content in marine fuel oils from 3.5% to 0.5% - to try to explain the rise in the thermometer. However, it seems that science is beginning to rule it out. While