No, these emissions masked climate change. Reducing them didn’t accelerate it, the warming effect was already there.
It’s headlines like this that subtly mislead people
That sounds analogous to the withdrawal effect which addicts suffer when stopping drugs.
Quickly reducing pollution reduces the short-lived masking effect, which makes things temporarily worse when the pollution stops. It’s still worth it and the best option long term.
So first cutting airline emissions increases global warming and now cutting ship emissions does it?
It’s like someone is trying to get a message out that cutting emissions is bad for the planet. Are we being gaslighted? Is this industry FUD?
With ships, they’re talking about sulfate aerosol emissions, rather than greenhouse gas emissions.