{"id":472311,"date":"2026-03-12T23:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472311\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T23:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:01:11","slug":"rate-of-global-warming-accelerating-as-air-pollution-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472311\/","title":{"rendered":"Rate of global warming accelerating as air pollution falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rate of global warming may be speeding up, mainly due to a reduction in air pollution, and its impacts are being felt both in hot countries and cold. <\/p>\n<p>Analysis suggested the Earth is warming at 0.35\u00b0C (0.2\u00b0F) per decade, up from around 0.2\u00b0C in the 1970s. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-026-00745-z\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Some scientists dispute the precise number<\/a>, but told Nature that there had certainly been an acceleration. <\/p>\n<p>The perhaps ironic primary cause is regulations on international shipping reducing pollutant particles, which reflected sunlight into space. <\/p>\n<p>The number of days per year worldwide that are too hot to engage in ordinary activities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-03-10\/around-the-world-unbearably-hot-days-are-multiplying\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">has doubled since 1950<\/a>, separate research found, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20260311-arctic-sea-ice-among-lowest-on-record-afp-review-of-us-data\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Arctic sea ice is at its lowest level on record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/29c4f1654fa39a63bad6becfad2ad7284e8df179-1258x1124.jpg\"  alt=\"A chart showing average global surface temperatures by year. \" width=\"740\" height=\"661\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_imageEmbed_1jdgl_38 _fullContentArea_1jdgl_42\" style=\"max-width:100%;color:transparent\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rate of global warming may be speeding up, mainly due to a reduction in air pollution, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-472311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}