According to some scientists, ash spewed from volcanoes is slowing down the tragic effects of global warming. Earth Not So Hot Thanks to Volcanoes - ScienceNOW
Imagine Mother Earth sending columns of fine particulates into the atmosphere to compensate for man-made climate change by actually reflecting sunlight and thereby cooling herself. This is like so natural and organic.
The pattern of stratospheric particulate variations during the past decade "shows the fingerprint of volcanoes, with the right episodes showing up at the right time," says William Randel, an atmospheric scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. "This is very convincing to me."
On the contrary, the team's simulations that included anthropogenic aerosols didn't show large changes in stratospheric concentrations. Only when industrial sulfur-dioxide emissions were boosted to 10 times those actually observed did stratospheric aerosols begin to approach the levels seen during the past decade, the researchers report in an upcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters. That's a sign, Neely says, that industrial emissions played little, if any, role in aerosol-produced cooling between 2000 and 2010.
We should help Mother Earth in her fight against global warming. If industrial emissions actually play a little, if any, role in aerosol-produced cooling, then we need to return to the days prior to emissions abatement. A time, not so long ago, when the atmosphere was full of fine particulates blocking the Sun and there was no such thing as global warming or skin cancer. Cast off your diesel exhaust fluid systems and EGRs. Petition your local power company to remove smokestack scrubbers. We must do this for our Mother, our children and grandchildren and their children and their children's children and for Sally Struthers.
The current administration in this country is trying to do away with coal burning power plants, an excellent source of fine particulates. They keep imposing more stringent restrictions on diesel exhaust emissions. They want to see Earth's temperature continue to rise and the polar icecaps melt with hopes of turning Florida into a giant fish farm and finishing up, where Katrina failed in New Orleans.
Imagine Mother Earth sending columns of fine particulates into the atmosphere to compensate for man-made climate change by actually reflecting sunlight and thereby cooling herself. This is like so natural and organic.
The pattern of stratospheric particulate variations during the past decade "shows the fingerprint of volcanoes, with the right episodes showing up at the right time," says William Randel, an atmospheric scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. "This is very convincing to me."
On the contrary, the team's simulations that included anthropogenic aerosols didn't show large changes in stratospheric concentrations. Only when industrial sulfur-dioxide emissions were boosted to 10 times those actually observed did stratospheric aerosols begin to approach the levels seen during the past decade, the researchers report in an upcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters. That's a sign, Neely says, that industrial emissions played little, if any, role in aerosol-produced cooling between 2000 and 2010.
We should help Mother Earth in her fight against global warming. If industrial emissions actually play a little, if any, role in aerosol-produced cooling, then we need to return to the days prior to emissions abatement. A time, not so long ago, when the atmosphere was full of fine particulates blocking the Sun and there was no such thing as global warming or skin cancer. Cast off your diesel exhaust fluid systems and EGRs. Petition your local power company to remove smokestack scrubbers. We must do this for our Mother, our children and grandchildren and their children and their children's children and for Sally Struthers.
The current administration in this country is trying to do away with coal burning power plants, an excellent source of fine particulates. They keep imposing more stringent restrictions on diesel exhaust emissions. They want to see Earth's temperature continue to rise and the polar icecaps melt with hopes of turning Florida into a giant fish farm and finishing up, where Katrina failed in New Orleans.
