50 years ago, scientists puzzled over a slight global cooling
Sulfate pollution turned out to be the culprit
Sulfate particles from fossil fuel burning briefly lowered global temperatures during the mid-twentieth century.
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Earth’s cooling climate, Science News, November 15, 1969 —
The average temperature for the entire Earth rose gradually from the 1880s until the early 1940s.