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Overlooked pollutants are responsible for about 15% of current global warming, study shows
- June 11, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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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 include carbon monoxide, non-methane volatile organic compounds, nitrogen oxides and molecular hydrogen.
Originally published at Phys.org