Posted on 06/03/2024 9:07:02 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In a development sure to discombobulate those who trust the United Nations’ experts to save the planet, it turns out that one UN agency’s anti-pollution regulations have inadvertently counteracted another agency’s anti-global-warming rules, at least according to one study.
Published Thursday in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, the study concludes that the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) 2020 regulations forcing a reduction in ships’ sulfur emissions allowed more sunlight to reach the Earth’s surface, causing a significant increase in alleged global warming.
The IMO required vessels engaged in international shipping to reduce the sulfur content of their fuel by a whopping 86 percent. The UN agency estimated the regulation would cause a 77-percent reduction in annual sulfur oxide emissions, which it claimed would lead to “reductions in stroke, asthma, lung cancer, cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases,” as well as “acid rain and ocean acidification.”
As with the UN’s climate regulations, the IMO’s sulfur dictates were not cheap to implement. The Boston Consulting Group, a management-consulting firm, forecast in 2019 that compliance costs would be “significant,” with the “cumulative additional fuel cost for container liners” likely to reach “nearly $30 billion through 2030.”
Moreover, while the regulations succeeded in their stated intention of shrinking sulfur emissions, the abrupt change “created an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock with global impact,” reads the study. With the skies suddenly cleaner, more sunlight got through, and ocean-surface temperatures rose by 0.2 watts per square meter, an amount “equivalent in magnitude to 80% of the measured increase in planetary heat uptake since 2020.”
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Wait, what?!
Easy: “MORE SMOG NOW”.
“ Easy: “MORE SMOG NOW”.
Bring back the wonderful high compression V-8 engines that we know and love.
Letting China (and other smoggy countries) off the hook.
Well then, there is no excuse for not using existing and building more coal fired power plants - the Chinese are on the right track.
This was noted following the air travel shutdown due to the 9/11 attacks, too. A lot less jet exhaust aloft equals higher observed temperatures on the ground.
Fire up the coal plants!
So THAT explains why New Jersey has cleaner air than the other states...
However, a world socialist government run by the Davos elites and massive new taxes would certainly end the problem and save us from the climate apocalypse.
“THAT?”
HOW?????
Explain, Please.
Most of the “chemtrails” disappeared, as well!
I remember, when I was flying 777s , seeing the chemicals loaded before my flight!/S
Wait a minute, hold on, I don’t remember that at all!.
Never mind.
I laughed my ass off when I read that yesterday!
File under "Heads I Win, Tails You Lose."
Does anybody remember the Acid Rain hysteria about 45 years ago? The greenie weenies said coal plants would kill all lakes in the north east with acid rain.
So we cleaned sulfur dioxide out of coal emissions. A number of years later some scientist claimed the sulfur dioxide actually reflected the solar radiation back into space thus causing global cooling.
So, burn dirty coal, have acid rain and cause global cooling or eliminate coal have clean air and cause global warming.
Climate Scientists are just F*cked Up!!!
The cheap, low quality, high sulfur fuel used in maritime shipping generates lots of particulates and sulfur dioxide. These generate clouds and otherwise reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the surface. Take that away and the heat value of the sunlight reaching land and water on the surface go up.
It seems that they can’t get their lies straight anymore.
I remember reading an here article by an
atmospheric scientist who proclaimed this was the predictable outcome.
He was attacked by his peers.
That was a couple decades ago.
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