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It had never stopped accelerating. This shithole planet have plenty of positive feedback loops, so you warm up, then you have less reflective ice, less albedo and more heat absorption, permafrost thaws and that is more greenhouse gases emissions, increase forest fires so more greenhouse emissions and so on. And the we keep getting surprised at new positive feedback loops.

And, over that, we kept increasing each year how much greenhouse gases we emit. And not only we emit more, but also the main greenhouse gas (CO2) stays in the atmosphere for 100-200 years. So it is practically been accumulating since the industrial revolution, in increasing amounts each year.

What happened is that part of that latent warming was masked by pollution, and cleaning that pollution (that had its own problems) took out that mask.