[i_dont_chat]

Most interesting paragraph:

The explanation for the standstill has been attributed to aerosols in the atmosphere produced as a by-product of greenhouse gas emission and volcanic activity. They would have the effect of reflecting some of the incidental sunlight into space thereby reducing the greenhouse effect. Such an explanation was proposed to account for the global cooling observed between 1940 and 1978.

Ahhhhh! Aerosols in the atmosphere. Perhaps the planet needed a sunscreen, as advised by Dr. Edward Teller.

http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3522851.html

Injecting sunlight-scattering particles into the stratosphere appears to be a promising approach.

[dirtbiker]

Injecting sunlight-scattering particles into the stratosphere appears to be a promising approach.

I thought that's what clouds do?

Doesn't it stand to reason the hotter it gets, the more clouds we'll have?

THEN, the more clouds we'll have, the COOLER it will get on the surface?

There's a LOT more H2O in the atmosphere than CO2, and plants need CO2 to grow.

In reality, the Earth can and does take care of itself, without our "help"....

[Old Professer]

We set about vacuuming the air in 1970 and have now succeeded in removing almost 98% of the pollutants then commonly discharged on a daily basis; all that while, CO2 continued to build up unabated until now we see the world either through a glass less darkly or so clearly, we don’t know what to make of it.

The last ten years have seen an exponential increase in China and, to some extent, India, the two most populous emerging industrial powers.

Could it be that they are unintentionally or carelessly adding back in the aerosols that work to mitigate warming?