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I've got to go to the library to read about this. I don't understand how oxidation of an organic gas (isoprene) creates a particle (aerosol). They say the same thing happens for sulfur in DMS, and I know that SO2 aerosols in the stratosphere block incoming sunlight (which I've said blithely for years), but aerosol implies particles, and SO2 is a gas. I'm missing something fundamental here, I think.

1 posted on 11/13/2006 12:35:22 PM PST by cogitator

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Ping

2 posted on 11/13/2006 12:36:26 PM PST by cogitator

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I'm not smart enough for this thread, but I wanted to give it a bump, nonetheless.

3 posted on 11/13/2006 12:38:27 PM PST by jdm

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WOW! I'll be... Don't let Al Gore find out, it may ruin his global warming fund raising.

4 posted on 11/13/2006 12:38:58 PM PST by chaos_5

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Most definitley Bush's Fault!

6 posted on 11/13/2006 1:01:24 PM PST by Hegemony Cricket (I'm Hegemony Cricket, and I improvised this message.)

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You might want to take a look at this as to the role of SO2 in cloud formation:

http://www.rap.ucar.edu/projects/UAE/uae_aerosols_clouds.html

7 posted on 11/13/2006 1:52:06 PM PST by ancient_geezer (Don't reform it, Replace it.)

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