Tuesday - July 05, 2011

Sadly Funny

Smoke belching from Asia’s rapidly growing economies is largely responsible for a halt in global warming in the decade after 1998 because of sulphur’s cooling effect, even though greenhouse gas emissions soared, a U.S. study said on Monday.
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World temperatures did not rise from 1998 to 2008, while manmade emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuel grew by nearly a third, various data show.

The researchers from Boston and Harvard Universities and Finland’s University of Turku said pollution, and specifically sulphur emissions, from coal-fueled growth in Asia was responsible for the cooling effect.

Sulphur allows water drops or aerosols to form, creating hazy clouds which reflect sunlight back into space.

“Anthropogenic activities that warm and cool the planet largely cancel after 1998, which allows natural variables to play a more significant role,” the paper said.

Natural cooling effects included a declining solar cycle after 2002, meaning the sun’s output fell.

The paper raised the prospect of more rapid, pent-up climate change when emerging economies eventually crack down on pollution.

So ... man-made pollutants are causing the earth to warm up, but man-made pollutants are causing the earth to cool down. The ozone hole, caused by man-made pollutants, has healed itself because people switched to other pollutants, but that healing caused the earth to warm up. And now we have all this extra carbon dioxide in the air, which is warming the planet (at lower altitudes) and cooling the planet (at higher altitudes) at the same time. And acid rain, which we fought so hard against back in the 70s, and is caused by atmospheric sulfur forming sulfur dioxide, is actually pulling heat from the planet and causing it to rain more! And where does this planet saving sulfur come from? It comes from burning evil coal!!!! It’s enough to drive a Gaia worshiper insane!

And of course, Mother Nature is just biding her time, waiting to get revenge! “… pent-up change when economies eventually crack down on pollution.”

So even though the sun has entered a long term cooling era according to solar experts, and right now one kind of air pollution vs another kind of air pollution has tipped the scales to the cold side, and no matter what kind of Kyoto-esque climate agreement the world can come up with China will continue to burn WTF it feels like, so the sulfur pollution isn’t going to lessen ever, things are about to get worse because ... [insert magic here] ... ie, 1) collect underpants, 2) , 3) profit!!!

Other climate scientists broadly supported Monday’s study, stressing that over longer time periods rising greenhouse gas emissions would over-ride cooling factors.

“Long term warming will continue unless emissions are reduced,” said Peter Stott, head of climate monitoring at Britain’s Met Office.

But reducing those emissions (SO₂) contributes to warming! But when acid rain falls (on limestone) it releases CO₂ which contributes to warming!!!!

Aaaaaaaaaggggghh!!!!111!!!1!

Posted by Drew458     on 07/05/2011 at 11:58 AM   
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