Posted on 11/23/2015 8:18:27 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
To protect human health and safeguard the environment, governments and utility companies around the world have worked -- successfully -- to reduced the amount of sulfur dioxide released into the atmosphere.
But there's a downside to cleaning the air of sulfur dioxide and similar pollutants: Arctic sea ice is more exposed to solar heat, and more of it melts.
Now, Environment Canada researchers, in a study published in Geophysical Research Letters, have put a number on the sea-ice melt that reduced emissions of sulfur dioxide (and certain other aerosols, tiny particles that are suspended in the atmosphere) are expected to cause: about 400,000 square miles or 1 million square kilometers.
That's the amount of ice melt, according to the study's calculation, that's likely to be attributable to reductions of human-caused emissions of sulfur dioxide and similar light-reflecting air pollutants by the end of the century. That figure will account for 25 to 40 percent of the expected seasonal sea-ice melt, depending on future emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, the study says.
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Global Warming Activists Cause Global Warming.
There are some groups of people that no matter what you do, they still won’t be happy. Freaking whiners.
Fire up those coal power plants!
Like maybe Al Gore?
Staged comedy is certainly losing its traditional edge as life itself becomes a twisted sitcom.
Haha
The left still won’t admit that the ice in the Artic IS NOT MELTING .. IN FACT IT’S GROWING LARGER AND LARGER.
Why does anybody with a brain believe a solitary word these “climate” people say ..??????
Lies, lies - and more lies.
Arctic ice is increasing.
As is Antarctic ice.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!
You can’t make this stuff up. Climate “Science” is just one big MadTV skit.
yep.
this research actually makes sense.
smog would block out the suns rays and cause cooling.
“groups of people that no matter what you do, they still won’t be happy. Freaking whiners.”
And now the GREEN INTERNATIONAL THINGS ALLIANCE ( GITA ) is complaining we must increase their supply of their kind of breathing commodity-— CO2...Just can’t keep everyone happy !
In the 70’s they said similar... the smog and pollution were going to cause and ice age. The sun would not be able to heat the world...
So they were correct, we cleaned things up and Voila! We are now heating up and melting lolol
Damn weather
And when the ice melts it releases trapped CO2 into the atmosphere. Catch 22.
You may have stumbled into the reason this works for the wackos. Suddenly polution is what causes the ice caps to grow, not necessarily global warming. This will eventually explain why the caps are growing despite the earth still warming (according to the fanatics). This way, we can both be poluting the atmosphere and warming the planet to explain what our lying eyes are telling us.
BUT... there have to be scientific studies that can form a chain of research that can be refuted and curtailed in peer reviews. Otherwise, this data is just the opinion of some "scientists." Once the dots connect for them, all will agree on a final explanation about how humans are causing: Global Warming, Melting of the Ice Caps and Expansion of the Ice Caps. Then there will be irrefutable consensus among 97% of all scientists. This issue will then also be settled science.
The "Grim Realities" of Global COOLING
"The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth's climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic."
The Cooling World
Newsweek, April 28, 1975
There are ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production- with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self- sufficient tropical areas - parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia - where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.
The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree - a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars' worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.
To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world's weather. The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth's climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic.
"A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale," warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, "because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century."
A survey completed last year by Dr. Murray Mitchell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a drop of half a degree in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968. According to George Kukla of Columbia University, satellite photos indicated a sudden, large increase in Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the winter of 1971-72. And a study released last month by two NOAA scientists notes that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3 percent between 1964 and 1972.
To the layman, the relatively small changes in temperature and sunshine can be highly misleading. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin points out that the Earth's average temperature during the great Ice Ages was only about seven degrees lower than during its warmest eras - and that the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average. Others regard the cooling as a reversion to the "little ice age" conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and northern America between 1600 and 1900 - years when the Thames used to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New York City.
Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery. "Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data," concedes the National Academy of Sciences report. "Not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions."
Meteorologists think that they can forecast the short-term results of the return to the norm of the last century. They begin by noting the slight drop in overall temperature that produces large numbers of pressure centers in the upper atmosphere. These break up the smooth flow of westerly winds over temperate areas. The stagnant air produced in this way causes an increase in extremes of local weather such as droughts, floods, extended dry spells, long freezes, delayed monsoons and even local temperature increases - all of which have a direct impact on food supplies.
"The world's food-producing system," warns Dr. James D. McQuigg of NOAA's Center for Climatic and Environmental Assessment, "is much more sensitive to the weather variable than it was even five years ago." Furthermore, the growth of world population and creation of new national boundaries make it impossible for starving peoples to migrate from their devastated fields, as they did during past famines.
Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.
The Cooling World:
http://denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm
Original Newsweek article with scary maps and graphs:
http://denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf
bkmk
“Arctic sea ice is more exposed to solar heat, and more of it melts.”
On paper that sure looks good, put a heat lamp on an ice cube and it melts, making liquid water.
Now I am not saying their theory is wrong, and for sure I believe global warming is a hoax -
but,
I live in a very cold place. Typically on a cloudless day when the sun is at it’s absolute brightest, we have our coldest temps and nothing melts. We have that phenomenon called sun dogs.
Now on days with complete cloud cover, the temps warm up.
Those cold days are an anomaly; the warm ones are man-made climate change. Simple, isn’t it?
Well .. it may be “settled science” for some people .. but not for me.
And .. I even talked my Mayor into reading up on a few good books with the REAL information.
He did a 1-80 on the issue .. much to the scorn of our current Governor Moonbeam.
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