More headlines: Clean Air and Global Warming

I am almost tempted to classify this under humor, but the following headline is for real:

Could Cleaner Air Actually Intensify Global Warming?

The story follows:

As much of the world marked Earth Day this past week, the Environmental Protection Agency reported that air pollution has declined dramatically over the past 20 years. It sounds like good news, but science writer Eli Kintisch argues that there's a surprising downside: Cleaner air might actually intensify global warming.

"If we continue to cut back on smoke pouring forth from industrial smokestacks, the increase in global warming could be profound," Kintisch writes in an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times.

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Fire up those obsolete steel foundries and fight global warming!

OK, I could not resist. I did file this under humor. Unintended humor though it is.