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Cleaner air has increased the number of city heatwaves

Last updated: July 22, 2025 12:05 pm
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As smog clears worldwide, heatwaves are becoming more frequent

smog over Santiago, Chile

Recent studies have shown that heatwaves are on the rise globally due to a reduction in aerosol pollution, which has been masking the warming effects of greenhouse gases. As aerosol pollution, primarily from the burning of fossil fuels, reflects sunlight away from the Earth, it has been counteracting the warming caused by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. This has led to a situation where aerosols have been dampening the impact of greenhouse gases on global temperatures.

However, with efforts to reduce aerosol pollution to improve human health, the warming effects of greenhouse gases are becoming more pronounced. Geeta Persad from the University of Texas at Austin highlights the need to address aerosol pollution as a public health priority, but also warns about the amplified risks of climate change in populated areas as aerosols decrease.

Using a climate model, Persad and her team studied the impact of aerosols on the frequency of heatwaves worldwide. They found that while aerosols were initially slowing down the increase in heatwave frequency, the decline in aerosols post-2005 has accelerated the rise in heatwaves by about two days per decade. This effect is more pronounced in populated areas, where aerosol reduction has a greater influence on heatwave frequency than greenhouse gas increase.

Under a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario and moderate aerosol decline, the researchers projected a significant increase in the number of heatwave days in populated areas by 2080. This highlights the need for fundamental changes in how these areas operate to mitigate the risks associated with increasing heatwaves.

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Shiv Priyam Raghuraman from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign commends the study for its detailed analysis of daily timescale statistics and the impact of aerosol reductions on a global scale. However, he notes that the results are based on a single model and a worst-case emissions scenario.

Daniel Westervelt from Columbia University acknowledges the significance of the findings in understanding the outsized impacts of aerosols on climate extremes and looks forward to further research on how these results may vary across different models and historical observations.

Despite the compelling findings, there remains uncertainty about how aerosol concentrations will change in the future. Persad emphasizes the wide range of possibilities in future emissions scenarios and the need for continued research in this area to better understand and mitigate the effects of climate change.

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