Dirty snow may be warming the Arctic

UPI ^ | 06/06/07

[Seadog Bytes]

"...with steam rising!"...???

You better be CAREFUL with that thing! ...That atmospheric water vapor is a WAY bigger problem than CO2 will EVER be!

[Cindy]

“...but one was sure a lot more expensive.”

[philetus]

Does it smell kind of like ammonia too?

[MaxMax]

The seals are pooping on the Ice!

Club More Seals! Bad seal, bad, bad seal

[dirtbiker]

World Briefing | Asia: India: Cooking Fuels Pollution.

Is this the same outfit that says my barbecue grill is a major source of pollution as well, and has banned them (or tried to) in Kookoofornia....

[dirtbiker]

That's NOT a "Fuel Vendor".

That is a state-of-the-art, grade A, number 1, self-regulating, self-propelled, "Fuel Processing and Manufacturing Facility"....

The beauty of this plant is when it has outlived it's usefulness, it can be recycled, using only a knife and a barbecue grill! (Except in India.)

[Vinnie]

Somehow volcanic activity got missed.

Natural soot, ie. volcanic dust, causes global cooling.
It's man made, specifically US soot that causes warming. /s

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SB!

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[SunkenCiv]

sidebar:

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[bobsatwork]

...dirty snow might be as much to blame as greenhouse gases for a third or more of Arctic warming.... Or, maybe the Arctic isn't warming at all: http://www.junkscience.com/MSU_Temps/Arctic.htm

[OESY]

It's about time that their polar bears learned something from our bears. They must learn to keep the snow
clean, or we'll have to chop down all those heat-retaining dark and pine-cone infested trees up there.

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[RightWhale]

This would make a difference by advancing the day the snow melts by about half an hour.

[agent_delta]

Dirty snow may be warming the Arctic,

May be?

MAY BE?

And you woke me for this?

Call me when you dorks get some real SCIENTIFIC proof.

cuckoo

[al baby]

[AFPhys]

“Giggling...

...ping.”

ROTFLMPO...

[Cindy]

Yep.

[AFPhys]

I keep telling people this. Some of the “RealClimate” folks have been trying to spread the BS that it was not “main stream scientists” who were saying “global cooling” & “Coming Ice Age” in the 60-70s ... they’re completely wrong. I attended seminars at Cornell where many “main stream scientists” concerned about the topic were treated to such possible solutions as “Spread Carbon Black” on deserts and ice and snow areas were proposed, among others. Another inconvenient truth for them.

[NavyCanDo]

Wasn’t covering the Ice Packs with Soot suggested as a solution to stop Global Cooling back in the 70’s? What a bunch of morons.

[ColdWater]

Irvine Associate Professor Charlie Zender said snow becomes dirty as the result of soot from vehicle tailpipes

That would make Indonesia and China the two worst polluters ...

[ColdWater]

Have you ever been to some parts of Asia where after 24 hours the black soot starts coming back up your mouth and nose?