Brown coulds. This is just great. Cities are covered by domes of gray or brown depending on the nature of their emissions. Part of the warming associated with cities?
This calls for the ‘Springfield Dome’ solution.
These vast shrouds of soot are predominantly from coal-fired industrial sources in Asia, creating the notorious Asian Brown Cloud. Most of the soot falling on the Arctic comes from Asia, 90 percent of the Arctic melt is due to dirty snow melting faster than it can be created. Climate models show that 25 percent of *ALL* global warming is from the Arctic & tundra ice loss.
About 30 percent of the warming on the American West coast is due to Asian soot. 40 percent of the warming in the vast Pacific is due to Asian soot - that’s 30 percent of the Earth’s surface area, causing up to 12 percent of all global warming - just from Asian soot alone. The American Sierra’s are melting sooner due to dirty snow, same goes for the glacial recessions in the Northern Rockies.
There are more vast palls of soot spanning the globe from seasonal slash&burns in the tropics & subtropics, creating a double-whammy for mountaintop glaciers in the tropics — Kilimanjaro’s suffering from lowered microclimate precipitation due to deforestation, coupled with increased solar luminence...
We’re off-shoring production to China, shifting jobs, etc. overseas. In countries committed to Kyoto’s carbon trading scheme, Kyoto’s serving to back-door emissions with the shifted production, which then accelerates globalization by encouraging the additional shifting of production (and jobs) to Asia along with the emissions.