[PatrickHenry]

This -- if it proves out -- should throw the environmentalists into a tizzy.

[PatrickHenry]

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[cvq3842]

Interesting . . .

[The_Victor]

So, in other words, "It's not the heat, it's the humidity."

[gondramB]

I don't have an opinion on whether or not the greenhouse effect is contributing to global warming - the evidence is not clear enough for me as a physicist who does not specialize in the area.

But I am convinced that greenhouse is not the whole story because it doesn't explain global warming stopping between 1945 and 1976 nor does it explain global cooling in the 1800's.

That said, this headline is terribly misleading. The introduction of a new theory does not smash the old one.

[isthisnickcool]

If we just closed all the Taco Bells down we could fix this "human emissions" problem.

[Izzy Dunne]

Al Gore must be spinning in his grave.

Oh, wait...

[Old Professer]

It would only serve to encourage them as the argument could be then made that, since the water vapor is all but impossible to control that mankind's efforts to control the remaining gases need be increased to buy a few more generations a little more time.

[beezdotcom]

Which reminds me - whatever happened to the "small comets" hypothesis? I thought there was an argument over whether or not it was due to sensor noise - but I haven't found anything more recent than this. If true, it would also have to be considered in climate models - which is yet again one more variable that environmentalists could be overlooking.

[Sundog]

Nonsense... It would only give junk science a new avenue to explore -- It is really all the contrails of high alititude airliners injecting water vapor at a critical altitude, where it accumulates and retains more heat for the earth...

[aruanan]

This -- if it proves out -- should throw the environmentalists into a tizzy.

Maybe, though, they'll just switch to advocating even tighter controls over water.

[ko_kyi]

The event released as much energy as fifteen one-megaton atomic bombs.

Um, didn't we intentionally denotate at least that much in the 1950s?

Between China, The USSR, and the US, I would think that we easily blew up 100 MT of stuff in a 20 year period.

[COEXERJ145]

Doesn't matter.

It is still Bush's fault.

[FOG724]

Not to throw cold water on this but I fail to see how an event in 08 effected temperatures in 06. Other than that, I like it.

[moasicwolf]

Environmentalism has nothing to do with science. It is all about politics.

[Walkingfeather]

No it won't, because global warming is a faith issue with them. Essentially secular religion. You can not argue faith. Presented with the evidence they will just chop off your head for being an infidel. rhetorically speaking.

[Nathan Zachary]

So, if we nuke iran, we will also solve the global warming problem. Cool.

[Physicist]

Sounds immediately wrong to me. Particulates from volcanoes demonstrably decrease global temperatures. Moreover, they settle out of the atmosphere within a very few years and the effect goes away. Ninety-eight years afterwards, the Tunguska event is still causing temperatures to rise? Not bloody likely.

[metmom]

It makes lots of sense. After Krakatoa blew, weather patterns were disrupted for quite some time, so there's precedent for it. I'd love to see what the environmentalists do with this one, besides ignore it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa

The eruption produced erratic weather and spectacular sunsets throughout the world for many months afterwards, as a result of sunlight reflected from suspended dust particles ejected by the volcano high into Earth's atmosphere. This worldwide volcanic dust veil acted as a solar radiation filter, reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the earth. In the year following the eruption, global temperatures were lowered by as much as 1.2 degrees Celsius on average. Weather patterns continued to be chaotic for years, and temperatures did not return to normal until 1888.

[King Prout]

interesting

[RightWingAtheist]

Ping.