Posted on 06/26/2024 8:10:47 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
It is widely accepted that humans have been heating up the planet for over a century by burning coal, oil and gas. Earth has already warmed by almost 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times, and the planet is poised to race past the hoped-for limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming.
But fewer people know that burning fossil fuels doesn’t just cause global warming — it also causes global cooling. It is one of the great ironies of climate change that air pollution, which has killed tens of millions, has also curbed some of the worst effects of a warming planet.
Tiny particles from the combustion of coal, oil and gas can reflect sunlight and spur the formation of clouds, shading the planet from the sun’s rays. Since the 1980s, those particles have offset between 40 and 80 percent of the warming caused by greenhouse gases.
And now, as society cleans up pollution, that cooling effect is waning. New regulations have cut the amount of sulfur aerosols from global shipping traffic across the oceans; China, fighting its own air pollution problem, has slashed sulfur pollution dramatically in the last decade.
The result is even warmer temperatures — but exactly how much warmer is still under debate. The answer will have lasting impacts on humanity’s ability to meet its climate goals.
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The Issue was never the Issue. It’s all about control.
BS
Will they change their climate crisis back to global warming ,LOL
These eco nuts have a religion and they will soon be demanding bloody human sacrifices on top of pyramids to “save the planet!”
Got that? Global warming also causes global cooling, so we must be even more afraid.
what a load of Orwellian double-think.
Exactly, as if we could change global temps. Ridiculous.
I propose a system that balances everything out.
On even-numbered days, we cool the planet.
On odd-numbered days, we warm the planet.
Or we could just admit that modern “Climate Change” theory is one big fraud, and spend our time and money on real problems instead.
Verbal diarrhea , it flows and flows and they could care less if it makes any sense or not but morons will slurp it up
Still, a lot of scientific questions remain — and until they are answered, the world won’t know exactly how much warming falling aerosols will unmask.
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They think the planet is the size of their bedroom and they can control everything
There’s no climate crisis a large tax increase couldn’t solve.
EC
We are told to believe they are 100% correct from now on.
Who are you going to believe? The Climate Change con artists, or you lying eyes?
And how, exactly have we been 'accidentally' cooling the planet?
Tiny particles from the combustion of coal, oil and gas can reflect sunlight and spur the formation of clouds, shading the planet from the sun’s rays. Since the 1980s, those particles have offset between 40 and 80 percent of the warming caused by greenhouse gases.
OK, then here's an idea: How about we NOT STOP BURNING COAL, OIL, AND GAS?
Yeah, they throw out tons of opinion, speculation and outright lies as ‘facts’. And then attempt to reason from there resulting in a load of hogwash.
They've reached Peak Idiocy.
Either that, or they learned Orwell very well: "Doublethink is the act of holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously and accepting both of them."
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