Posted on 11/13/2018 6:50:30 PM PST by NoLibZone
Historic levels of particles in the atmosphere released from pre-industrial era fires, and their cooling effect on the planet, may have been significantly underestimated according to a new study.
Historic levels of particles in the atmosphere released from pre-industrial era fires, and their cooling effect on the planet, may have been significantly underestimated according to a new study.
Fires cause large amounts of tiny particles, known as aerosols, to be released into the atmosphere. These aerosols, such as the soot in smoke or chemicals released by burning trees, can cool the planet by reflecting sunlight back into space and increasing cloud brightness.
Until now, researchers believed that there were fewer wildfires before 1750 -- prior to the first Industrial Revolution. Additionally, fires from agricultural burning practices in the pre-industrial era have been largely negated or underestimated in datasets of fire emissions. Therefore, it was thought there were lower levels of aerosols in the atmosphere, reducing their effect on the climate.
Research led by scientists at the University of Leeds has shown fires may have been as common before 1750 as in modern times and possibly even more so. This implies that the cooling effect of present-day human-made aerosol pollution, such as the tiny particles in car emissions and power plant stacks, may have been overestimated.
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The study published in Nature Communications, suggests there has possibly been a reduction of fire emissions of between 45 to 70 per cent globally since the Industrial Revolution.
The answer is the fires in western United States.
In social science this is called, 'priming'.
When the warming doesn't happen they will have their excuse in place.
What is laughable is that the elites, including the Pope think they are the authority on climate, whilst new information continues to pour in making their assertions questionable.
The Pope should know the dangers of excessive hubris and remind us that only God is God.
I’m hoping they get control of the fires.
But - though it’s a horrible way to learn - I’m also hoping that the people who have lost loved ones and homes will finally get a clue and demand that their politicians and leaders address forest mismanagement.
Regardless all the warnings of ‘climate change’, I’m not aware of anyone who has demonstrably died of this ephemeral ‘theory’. But lots of people have died from these West Coast fires, and that could have been prevented.
(Maybe ‘Smokey’s’ message is still true, but needs to be routed toward a different emphasis: ‘Only YOU can manage the forests intelligently’.)
Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana Jr., published in 1840.
California...
“The only thing which diminishes its beauty is, that the hills have no large trees upon them, they having been all burnt by a great fire which swept them off about a dozen years before, and they had not yet grown up again.
The fire was described to me by an inhabitant, as having been a very terrible and magnificent sight. The air of the whole valley was so heated that the people were obliged to leave the town and take up their quarters for several days upon the beach.”
Defeating global warming is the stated priority of California’s government and its liberal elite. They are determined to do it on their own if necessary. Plenty more of California available to burn to produce smoke and soot to cool the planet.
One good valcano going off (several each year) would exceed the aerosols these fires produce.
No sunspots
Moronic. Carl Sagan claimed the same thing about the 1000 oil well fires in Kuwait in ‘91. He said we would see dropping temperatures, and possibly something like a nuclear winter.
Nothing happened, and the air pollution effects were basically local and short lived.
Dang! I always knew that soot, lamp black, carbon black, etc. were highly reflective, though everyone else said I was crazy. Glad to finally get the scientific proof to back that up!
Regards,
Shouldn’t the mega-tons of carbon these fires release warm the planet? Science! It’s soooo confusing!
Krakatoa.
If this is true, it seems obvious to me that the only way to defeat global warming for all of us to crank up our fireplaces and spew a lot more particulates into the air, right? /sarc
Krakatoa.
Volcanic cluster:
1815 Mount Tambora VEI=7
1883 Krakatoa VEI=6
1912 Novarupta, Mount Katmai, Alaska VEI=6
1981 Mt St Helen VEI=5
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