Giant Toxic Cloud May Bring Flood and Droughts to Two Billion People

The Times Online (U.K.) ^ | August 3, 2007 | By Jeremy Page

[sourcery]

Basic References:

• Hostages to a hoax
• Water Experts Find Earth’s Warming, Rainfall Linked to Sun
• Milankovitch Cycles and Glaciation
• The Myth of Dangerous Human-Caused Climate Change (PDF)
• Up against the warming zealots
• When Physics Trumps Hysteria in Global Warming
• Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
• Global Warming: Forecasts by Scientists versus Scientific Forecasts
• Geophysical, archeological and historical evidence support a solar-output model for climate change (PDF)
• Gamma rays and climate (PDF)
• Temperature vs. Cosmic Ray Flux
• Linkages between solar activity, climate predictability and water resource development (PDF)
• Proof on Ice: Southern Greenland Was Once Green; Earth Warmer
• Global Warming and Nature's Thermostat
• The Past and Future of Climate (PDF)
• The Great Global Warming Swindle
• IceCap

Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):

• Science, not politics
• Statistics needed
• The original denier: into the cold
• End the chill
• They call this a consensus?
• The limits of predictability
• Unsettled science
• Models trump measurements
• The ice-core man
• The hurricane expert who stood up to UN junk science
• Polar scientists on thin ice
• The sun moves climate change
• Bright sun, warm Earth. Coincidence?
• Look to Mars for the truth on global warming
• Read the sunspots
• Forget warming - beware the new ice age
• Little Ice Age is still with us
• Fighting climate 'fluff'

Other References:

• Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny
• The Global Warming Myth
• Global Warming: A Chilling Perspective
• Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'
• IPCC Scientists Challenge Al Gore’s View of Global Warming Consensus
• Swedish Scientist Accuses UN's IPCC of Falsifying Data and Destroying Evidence
• CO2 Science
• Global Warming and Climate Forcing by Recent Albedo Changes on Mars
• Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics
• The Real 'Inconvenient Truth'
• New findings indicate today's greenhouse gas levels not unusual
• Climate Change: Incorrect information on pre-industrial CO2
• Global Warming as a Religion
• I Was On the Global Warming Gravy Train (By David Evans)
• Global Warming: it's not caused by greenhouse gases says academic
• Still Waiting for Greenhouse
• GREENIE WATCH
• Why Global Warming Would be Good for You
• Global Warming Primer (PDF)
• Global Warming: An Official Pseudoscience
• Sun's Output Increasing in Possible Trend Fueling Global Warming
• Fiddler On The Roof
• Debating Global Warming
• Climate Resistance

[ClearCase_guy]

I say we sign Kyoto and cripple the US economy. It’s the least we can do.

[sourcery]

Basic References:

• Hostages to a hoax
• Water Experts Find Earth’s Warming, Rainfall Linked to Sun
• Milankovitch Cycles and Glaciation
• The Myth of Dangerous Human-Caused Climate Change (PDF)
• Up against the warming zealots
• When Physics Trumps Hysteria in Global Warming
• Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
• Global Warming: Forecasts by Scientists versus Scientific Forecasts
• Geophysical, archeological and historical evidence support a solar-output model for climate change (PDF)
• Gamma rays and climate (PDF)
• Temperature vs. Cosmic Ray Flux
• Linkages between solar activity, climate predictability and water resource development (PDF)
• Proof on Ice: Southern Greenland Was Once Green; Earth Warmer
• Global Warming and Nature's Thermostat
• The Past and Future of Climate (PDF)
• The Great Global Warming Swindle
• IceCap

Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):

• Science, not politics
• Statistics needed
• The original denier: into the cold
• End the chill
• They call this a consensus?
• The limits of predictability
• Unsettled science
• Models trump measurements
• The ice-core man
• The hurricane expert who stood up to UN junk science
• Polar scientists on thin ice
• The sun moves climate change
• Bright sun, warm Earth. Coincidence?
• Look to Mars for the truth on global warming
• Read the sunspots
• Forget warming - beware the new ice age
• Little Ice Age is still with us
• Fighting climate 'fluff'

Other References:

• Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny
• The Global Warming Myth
• Global Warming: A Chilling Perspective
• Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'
• IPCC Scientists Challenge Al Gore’s View of Global Warming Consensus
• Swedish Scientist Accuses UN's IPCC of Falsifying Data and Destroying Evidence
• CO2 Science
• Global Warming and Climate Forcing by Recent Albedo Changes on Mars
• Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics
• The Real 'Inconvenient Truth'
• New findings indicate today's greenhouse gas levels not unusual
• Climate Change: Incorrect information on pre-industrial CO2
• Global Warming as a Religion
• I Was On the Global Warming Gravy Train (By David Evans)
• Global Warming: it's not caused by greenhouse gases says academic
• Still Waiting for Greenhouse
• GREENIE WATCH
• Why Global Warming Would be Good for You
• Global Warming Primer (PDF)
• Global Warming: An Official Pseudoscience
• Sun's Output Increasing in Possible Trend Fueling Global Warming
• Fiddler On The Roof
• Debating Global Warming
• Climate Resistance

[Old Sarge]

cooling the earth beneath in a process known as “global dimming”

First I've heard of THIS!

I wonder if global dimming is the direct result of the Glorious March Of World Socialism?

[xcamel]

FReepmail me to get on or off

Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown

New!!: Dr. John Ray's
GREENIE WATCH

Ping me if you find one I've missed.

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AKA: Global Dumbing.

[sourcery]

The double post in this case was not user error. I hit the post button exactly once, which resulted in an HTTP error page. So I then hit the refresh button, which updated the page, and revealed the double post.

[Nomorjer Kinov]

Floods and droughts?

That's an all-purpose cloud.

[Former Proud Canadian]

mark

[Disambiguator]

Floods and droughts?

Floods and droughts, heating and cooling.

Gotta keep all the bases covered!

[doc1019]

Gee, something new to fear, just when I had become somewhat adjusted to all the other tragedies befalling mankind. By the way, wouldn’t this cause a mini ice age, what with all the talk of Global Warming and all?

[MAexile]

Brown clouds over Asia? I blame Bush!

[givemELL]

Thank you sourcery...although I run the risk of acute catastrophic global mental obesity, I will chase as many of these down for scanning and selection for a project I am doing..thanks again for the promising bibliography..eom

[elkfersupper]

I say we sign Kyoto and cripple the US economy. It’s the least we can do.

And give all those people a hybrid bicycle, along with a smoke-and transfat-free workplace.

[wastedyears]

Bush's fault

[FreedomPoster]

“The main cause of climate change is the build-up of greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels,” said Achim Steiner, the United Nations under-secretary-general and the executive director of UNEP. “But brown clouds, whose environmental and economic impacts are beginning to be unravelled by scientists, are complicating and aggravating their effects.”

That's a serious pile of dung right there. "We don't really understand this brown cloud phenomenon, but we know that fossil fuel greenhouse gases are *much* more important, since we can more easily use control of them, to control people, which is what we are really after."

[furquhart]

In contrast with the nonsensical “Global Warming” theory, which is far more religious-political than anything else, I’d describe this as a very real concern. You have a more or less unprescedented concentration of industry in a very small part of the world with very few controls spewing all sorts of noxious chemicals into the air.

Part of the problem is that:

1) The Boy Who Cried Wolf syndrome kicks in.
2) Nonsense about Global Warming distracts those inclined to worry about such things from actual problems.

[escapefromboston]

Asian Brown Cloud

BWahahahaha,

Sounds like a good name for a really lame punk band.

[aruanan]

Scientists have already observed that two thirds of the 46,000 glaciers in the Himalayas are shrinking, leading to increasingly severe floods downstream and, eventually, to widespread drought.

They're probably shrinking for the same reason that most other glaciers have been shrinking (well, except for those all over the world that are growing): sublimation of the ice due to less cloud cover and precipitation. This is what is responsible for the shrinking of the glaciers in Africa. It started in 1880.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

I’ve got a solution! Let’s ship every last one of the enviro-wackos in America who are stopping everything that gets proposed to improve our infrastructure, from refineries to power plants to widened roads, over to South Asia where there is at least a tiny, slight chance that their obstruction might do a little good.