Posted on 01/07/2011 10:37:57 AM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – An international team of researchers has found that the atmosphere's ability to cleanse itself of pollutants and other greenhouse gases, except carbon dioxide, is generally stable.
The study, published in Friday's edition of the journal Science, comes amid a fierce debate over whether, as some experts believe, the atmosphere's self-cleaning ability was fragile and sensitive to environmental changes.
The research team, which was led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), measured levels in the atmosphere of hydroxyl radicals, which play a key role in atmospheric chemistry.
Levels of the agent only fluctuated a few percentage points from one year to the next, not 25 percent as some studies had estimated, the researchers found.
"The new hydroxyl measurements give researchers a broad view of the 'oxidizing' or self-cleaning capacity of the atmosphere," said Stephen Montzka, the study's lead author, a research chemist at the Global Monitoring Division of NOAA's Boulder, Colorado laboratory.
"Now we know that the atmosphere's ability to rid itself of many pollutants is generally well buffered or stable... This fundamental property of the atmosphere was one we hadn't been able to confirm before."
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They have been classifying CO2 as a pollutant in their Goebbels propaganda for years.
It is Lengthy but Plimer and Monckton mop the floor with Prof Brooks and the impish attack journalist ...Readfern....
Don’t know whether such a dangerous fact would be allowed into the classroom these days!
Uncontrolled coal seam fires in China cause more CO2 to be produced than all the cars and light trucks in the USA combined. Lets start there.
That’s why half my grandkids are home schooled now.
Watched it in it’s entirety. Brooks and the kid where outclassed and out gunned.
I am now a Fan of Pilmer as well as Monckton.
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