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Global Warming Could Worsen U.S. Pollution: Report
Yahoo News ^ | 2/19/05

Posted on 02/19/2005 5:27:22 PM PST by Libloather

Global Warming Could Worsen U.S. Pollution: Report
Sat Feb 19, 3:57 PM ET Science - Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global warming could stifle cleansing summer winds across parts of the northern United States over the next 50 years and worsen air pollution, U.S. researchers said on Saturday.

Further warming of the atmosphere, as is happening now, would block cold fronts bringing cooler, cleaner air from Canada and allow stagnant air and ozone pollution to build up over cities in the Northeast and Midwest, they predicted.

"The air just cooks," said Loretta Mickley of Harvard University's Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. "The pollution accumulates, accumulates, accumulates, until a cold front comes in and the winds sweep it away."

Mickley and colleagues used a computer model, an approach commonly used by climate scientists to predict weather and climate changes.

She told a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that the model predicted a 20-percent decline in summer cold fronts out of Canada.

"If this model is correct, global warming would cause an increase in difficult days for those affected by ozone pollution, such as people suffering with respiratory illnesses like asthma and those doing physical labor or exercising outdoors," she said.

World temperatures have risen by an average of 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.6 degree Celsius) over the past century.

Earlier this week 141 nations signed the U.N. Kyoto Protocol aimed at cutting the so-called greenhouse gas emissions that fuel global warming.

It imposes caps on carbon dioxide emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels in power plants, factories and cars, in 35 developed nations.

The United States, which produces the most pollution of any country, has refused to sign it.

The model used by Mickley and her colleagues incorporates things such as the sun's luminosity, topography of the planet, the distribution of the oceans, the pull of gravity and the tilt of the Earth's axis, as well as predicted warming.

They fed in gradually increased levels of greenhouse gases at rates projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. What they found surprised them.

"The answer lies in one of the basic forces that drive the Earth's weather -- the temperature difference between the hot equator and the cold poles," Mickley said.

In the middle latitudes, low-pressure systems and accompanying cold fronts help redistribute heat by carrying warm air to the poles and replacing it with cool air. Warming slows that process down, Mickley's team found.


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Global warming could stifle cleansing summer winds across parts of the northern United States...

How about getting a huge number of 18-wheelers and SUVs hauling east down I-90 or I-94. Wouldn't that create some wind?

(Say, when will Mexico begin to get warmer - or does this global phenomena end at the Rio Grande?)

1 posted on 02/19/2005 5:27:22 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather
If this model is correct, ....

oh....go away
2 posted on 02/19/2005 5:29:41 PM PST by stylin19a (Marines - end of discussion)
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To: Libloather
She told a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that the model predicted a 20-percent decline in summer cold fronts out of Canada.

In Houston, we got at least 3 of them in July and August, the first I'd ever seen.

Houston. Not Topeka.

3 posted on 02/19/2005 5:30:40 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Libloather
Simply amazing how all these reports are coming out just in time to "celebrate" the Kyoto treaty.

State of Fear
4 posted on 02/19/2005 5:30:43 PM PST by Belisaurius ("Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, Ted" - Joseph Kennedy 1958)
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To: Libloather
This is baloney.

After the human race becomes extinct from the global warming then we will no longer be polluting the planet with our existence. Problem solved. /EndSarcasm
5 posted on 02/19/2005 5:31:14 PM PST by spinestein
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To: Libloather

Didn't Lake Tahoe get several feet of global warming this year?


6 posted on 02/19/2005 5:33:20 PM PST by Crazieman (Islam. Religion of peace, and they'll kill you to prove it.)
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To: Libloather

I COULD win the lottery...


7 posted on 02/19/2005 5:37:22 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead (Islam is religion of piece established for profit for Muhammad, piss be upon him.)
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To: Libloather
Mickley and colleagues used a computer model...

Is this like a super model, or is it something that comes in a kit?

8 posted on 02/19/2005 5:38:06 PM PST by LRS
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To: Libloather
Hard as I try to see it their way, I just can't get my head that far up my a$$


9 posted on 02/19/2005 5:40:57 PM PST by xcamel (Deep Red, stuck in a "bleu" state.)
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To: Libloather
Throw enough shit on the wall and something will stick, right. These people are in full panic mode. The onslaught of enviro-doom is really massive.
10 posted on 02/19/2005 5:44:38 PM PST by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: farmfriend


11 posted on 02/19/2005 5:51:51 PM PST by Libertarianize the GOP (Make all taxes truly voluntary)
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To: Libloather

The whole gloom and doom aspect of this is all based on computer models. If you want funding, you make you models scary. With the number of unknowns and other varibles, you can make predictions to say anything you wish.


12 posted on 02/19/2005 5:54:04 PM PST by Always Right
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To: LRS
Is this like a super model...

I'm feeling warmer already...


13 posted on 02/19/2005 5:54:39 PM PST by Libloather (The left is dead! Long live their impeached *King and *Queen!)
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To: Libloather
Global warming could stifle cleansing summer winds across parts of the northern United States over the next 50 years and worsen air pollution, U.S. researchers said on Saturday.

Where is the, "this is solid - no one can dispute this!" part?

LVM

14 posted on 02/19/2005 5:58:59 PM PST by LasVegasMac ("God. Guts. Guns. I don't call 911." (bumper sticker))
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To: Libloather
The model used by Mickley and her colleagues incorporates things such as:

the sun's luminosity,

topography of the planet,

the distribution of the oceans,

the pull of gravity

and the tilt of the Earth's axis,

as well as predicted warming.

These are some of what was fed into the "suspect" model. What was left out?

15 posted on 02/19/2005 6:03:26 PM PST by Noachian (We're all one judge away from tyranny.)
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To: Crazieman

yeah.....Tahoe got 9 ft of global warming all in one day.....if this global warming continues, we are gonna freeze to death


16 posted on 02/19/2005 6:04:46 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: Libloather

More coulda-woulda-shoulda crap from the environazis. Every day there's different crackpot global warming disaster scenario peddled by some desperate snake-oil scientist who needs to keep the grant money flowing.


17 posted on 02/19/2005 6:06:26 PM PST by AF68 (A political party that engages in vote fraud won't hesitate to steal all of your rights.)
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To: Libloather

Typical of Reuters to be the source of a load of crap like this - just when there are serious doubts being cast upon the underlying "science" behind the "global-warming" theory.


18 posted on 02/19/2005 6:18:21 PM PST by Redbob
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To: Libloather; Crazieman; Dog Gone; Belisaurius; spinestein; Texas_Jarhead; All
I believe that our world is warming globally. But this warming is not caused by man or pollution from SUV's. It is caused by Space Weather. That is correct. Space Weather.

The earth does not sit in one place. We are moving through the vast reaches of outer space as our planet revolves around the sun. Each day our tiny planet moves into unexplored space like our planet is 'space ship earth.' Getting the picture yet?

Our whole solar system is heating up. Dramatically heating up. Hit my Freeper page. Hit the link I posted about the solar system. But scroll down to the bottom of the very long page -- past all the dramatic images. Pages 2 and 3 are filled with scientific reports about the warming the the entire solar system. Think about it, digest it, and come back to the first page. Then look at the images of global cooling.

Global cooling (like snow storms in Texas) are a natural reaction to global warming. Think about that for a minute. What you will eventually understand is that we humans are only here in the present time by the grace of God. Time is just an idea in the mind of God anyway. Think about that for a minute. Or a half hour. Or Whatever . . .

But nobody listens to me anyway. I'm just an old geezer living in The Peoples' Republic of Oregon

19 posted on 02/19/2005 6:20:45 PM PST by ex-Texan (Mathew 7:1 through 6)
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To: Libloather

That's funny. MY computer model says everything is going to be just fine. Why doesn't Rooters print THAT?


OUTPUT: EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE JUST FINE.
END OF OUTPUT


20 posted on 02/19/2005 6:31:09 PM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
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