Posted on 08/21/2013 2:33:12 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Pollution controls have contributed to a more transparent atmosphere, thus allowing for “…a staggering increase in surface solar radiation of the order of ∼20% over the last decade.”
A new paper (O’Dowd et al.) from the National University of Ireland presented this summer at the 19th International Conference on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols suggests that clean air laws put in place in the 1970′s and 80′s have resulted in an increase in sunlight impacting the surface of the Earth, and thus have increased surface temperatures as a result. In one fell swoop, this can explain why surface temperature dipped in the 1970′s, prompting fears of an ice age, followed by concerns of global warming as the air got cleaner after pollution laws and controls were put in place.
WUWT covered a similar effort (Wild 2009) here and paper here (PDF 1.4 mb) which showed the issue but fell short of showing a provable causation for temperature.
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Damnit !!!
Can’t win fer losing ...
Thanks Hojczyk. This is worth discussing, doing environmental cleaning leading to global warming.... I guess that can be called ‘Unintended consequence.”
Almost funny... I’ve talked about this for years, but was only guessing.
I’ve been saying this for years! But my wife, family, friends, have been considering me a total denier nutcase.
All smokestacks in the industrialized world have been fitted with scrubbers; catalytic converters have reduced vehicle smog ten fold; ships, trains, don’t spew coal smoke; buildings are heated with oil and gas, not coal, wood and peat. Metal production is through electric furnaces, not coke/coal fired cupolas. The list is endless!
More sunshine is penetrating through the atmosphere heating more ocean and landmass, causing global temperatures to rise.
Algore and his ilk be damned!
Somebody elses fault
So, to stop glow-bull warming, we need more air pollution.
Thanks for the ping!
So, because we've cleaned up the atmosphere to almost cave man era pristine levels, we now have "man made global warming" and we are therefore destroying the planet and we have to pay trillions more to do more of the same and make it even cleaner?
Does anybody else see the weirdness in this logic?
In September 1780, the Over Mountain men crossed snow covered Yellow Mountain gap of the Roan Mountain complex on their way to defeat the British in one of the most decisive battles in the evolution.
The journey was made through forests of original timber. There were no sources of air pollution.
If clean air was a factor, we would see September snow on the Roan
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