Posted on 02/03/2021 11:08:18 AM PST by RightGeek
Earth spiked a bit of a fever in 2020, partly because of cleaner air from the pandemic lockdown, a new study found.
For a short time, temperatures in some places in the eastern United States, Russia and China were as much as half to two-thirds of a degree (.3 to .37 degrees Celsius) warmer. That’s due to less soot and sulfate particles from car exhaust and burning coal, which normally cool the atmosphere temporarily by reflecting the sun’s heat, Tuesday’s study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters reported.
Overall, the planet was about .05 degrees (.03 degrees Celsius) warmer for the year because the air had fewer cooling aerosols, which unlike carbon dioxide is pollution you can see, the study found.
“Cleaning up the air can actually warm the planet because that (soot and sulfate) pollution results in cooling” which climate scientists have long known, said study lead author Andrew Gettelman, an atmospheric scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. His calculations come from comparing 2020 weather to computer models that simulated a 2020 without the pollution reductions from pandemic lockdowns.
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More nonsense from the Crazy People.
We’ve come full circle, less pollution now causes global warming. For decades we were told more pollution causes global warming.
Too many carbon emissions gets you global warming.
Not enough carbon emissions gets you global warming.
It’s almost like emissions aren’t the primary cause of global warming.
The climate change narrative really is something isn’t it?
No matter what happens it is proof of their hypothesis.
Oh noooooo, we need more dirty air. Quick everyone, go outside and burn some leaves.
What comes up when I google “What causes global warming?”:
A: Global warming occurs when carbon dioxide (CO2) and other air pollutants and greenhouse gases collect in the atmosphere and absorb sunlight and solar radiation that have bounced off the earth’s surface. ... That’s what’s known as the greenhouse effect.
Wait, what is it that’s causing the CLIMATE CRISIS again?!
The only solution is to remove all carbon-based life on the planet.
These people could find a dark cloud in a clear blue sky
When the weather is better, I enjoy releasing trapped carbon using my fire pit.
Wait a minute - I thought we were supposed to stop driving our cars to clean the air and stop global warming! Now, they say CLEAN air causes global warming!
They see the sun and claim it’s merely a hole in the sky with light shinning through.
That’s the solution, repeal the Clean Air Act and the “warming” will disappear. /S
/LOL
So i stead of 20 degrees, it should have been 20.5?
We’ve been gypped.
I’m just so confused!
Damned if you do,DAMNED if you don’t. Carbon dioxide comprises .04% of the Earth’s atmosphere. Give me a break.
Wait a minute now.
Is it a half a degree, which is .5 or .05, which is 5 hundredths of a degree?
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