NASA Blames Soot For Global Warming

The Washington Post ^ | Dec 24, 2003 | NA

[neverdem]

Diesel motor heads are going to love hearing this.

Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah

[neverdem]

PING

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[Texas Eagle]

NASA scientists say that soot, mostly from diesel engines, is causing as much as a quarter of all observed global warming ....

Fine. I'll convert my truck to burn solid rocket fuel.

[snopercod]

My albedo has been a little weak lately, too.

Maybe I'll find some Viagra in my stocking tomorrow!

[CHICAGOFARMER]

You calling me a Diesel motor head?

Just because I drive diesel?/

[farmfriend]

I'll convert my truck to burn solid rocket fuel.

I have a friend who created an environmentally friendly rocket fuel.

[cake_crumb]

Algore paid NASA to come to this conclusion...along with a few others coming up. If they didn't he would not have funfed NASA. Science and politics do NOT mix.

[Texas Eagle]

Well there we go. Problem almost solved.

[cake_crumb]

Funded

[dasboot]

NASA oughta concentrate on retrieving living astronauts.

[Steve_Seattle]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't diesel a favored fuel in . . . Europe?

[neverdem]

You calling me a Diesel motor head?

No, I'm calling one of my best friends who has a bald head, upper arms the size of most folks thighs, 3 or 4 used diesel pick-up trucks from the Port Authority of NY, and paints the George Washington Bridge.

[farmfriend]

Well there we go. Problem almost solved.

Well he couldn't get the government to use it. BTW, he also created the fuel for most of our rockets used in the space program and ones like the minuteman. He did know what he was doing and the government still refused to use it. Never did know why.

[RightWhale]

actual inventories of diesel particulate emissions in the U.S.

It's not just the US. We try, but we aren't doing it by ourselves. Got lots of help. Seems like just a few years ago Soviet Russian technicians were spreading soot on snowcovered wheatfields in an attempt to get a longer growing season. Looks like everybody has joined in and it is working. The snow gets kind of gray and disgusting by spring.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[MEG33]

We need volcanos to shut it down,too.

[RightWhale]

If they didn't he would not have funfed NASA.

Frankly, NASA has been funfed for several years.

[tbeatty]

20 years ago, clear cutting of forests caused large reflecting areas on the planet that was going to cause the next ice age (watch Carl Sagan in the Cosmos series).

Obvisously, the answer to soot is to clear cut more forests so that we can get more reflecting surface on the planet.

[Mike Darancette]

That is just wrong. The Washington Fish-wrap is uo to it's old tricks.