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Title: Asia pollution blamed for halt in warming (sulphur emissions from burning coal - save the planet)
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Reuters
URL Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011 ... -sulphur-idUSTRE7634IQ20110704
Published: Jul 5, 2011
Author: Gerard Wynn
Post Date: 2011-07-05 00:42:22 by Hondo68
Keywords: increase in global temperature, due to reduced air pollution, sulphurs cooling effect
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Comments: 18
Smoke billows from chimneys at an industrial district near Tokyo February 28, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon LONDON (Reuters) - Smoke belching from Asia's rapidly growing economies is largely responsible for a halt in global warming in the decade after 1998 because of sulphur's cooling effect, even though greenhouse gas emissions soared, a U.S. study said on Monday. The paper raised the prospect of more rapid, pent-up climate change when emerging economies eventually crack down on pollution. World temperatures did not rise from 1998 to 2008, while manmade emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuel grew by nearly a third, various data show. The researchers from Boston and Harvard Universities and Finland's University of Turku said pollution, and specifically sulphur emissions, from coal-fueled growth in Asia was responsible for the cooling effect. Sulphur allows water drops or aerosols to form, creating hazy clouds which reflect sunlight back into space. "Anthropogenic activities that warm and cool the planet largely cancel after 1998, which allows natural variables to play a more significant role," the paper said. Natural cooling effects included a declining solar cycle after 2002, meaning the sun's output fell. The study said that the halt in warming had fueled doubts about anthropogenic climate change, where scientists say manmade greenhouse gas emissions are heating the Earth. "It has been unclear why global surface temperatures did not rise between 1998 and 2008," said the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. A peak in temperatures in 1998 coincided with a strong El Nino weather event, a natural shift which brings warm waters to the surface of the Pacific Ocean every few years. Subsequent years have still included nine of the top 10 hottest years on record, while the U.N. World Meteorological Organization said 2010 was tied for the record. A U.N. panel of climate scientists said in 2007 that it was 90 percent certain that humankind was causing global warming. COAL Sulphur aerosols may remain in the atmosphere for several years, meaning their cooling effect will gradually abate once smokestack industries clean up. The study echoed a similar explanation for reduced warming between the 1940s and 1970s, blamed on sulphur emissions before Western economies cleaned up largely to combat acid rain. "The post 1970 period of warming, which constitutes a significant portion of the increase in global surface temperature since the mid 20th century, is driven by efforts to reduce air pollution," it said. Sulphur emissions are linked to coal consumption which in China grew more than 100 percent in the decade to 2008, or nearly three times the rate of the previous 10 years, according to data from the energy firm BP. Other climate scientists broadly supported Monday's study, stressing that over longer time periods rising greenhouse gas emissions would over-ride cooling factors. "Long term warming will continue unless emissions are reduced," said Peter Stott, head of climate monitoring at Britain's Met Office.
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And notice how VERY certain Reuters is in this report. Absolutely ZERO doubt. To be discredited in hours/days. And then the return of the Top 50 000 Empire's Media Control to: Still Doubts that Humans have Caused Climate Change. We and Koch Bros Asphalt Co/Coca Cola/Entergy are working on another Denial Story now. Should be out soon.... LMFAO Sen Inhofe gets deathly ill from Algae Bloom swim in Grand Lake. Says Environment attacked him....8D
Arctic going Ice FREE by 2013. So with all of that Sulphur from the exploding Asian Economies... the Arctic would've gone ICE FREE sooner? 8D 2011 on track for HOTTEST year ever.
2010 the hottest year on record - ABC News (Australian ... www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/01/21/3117825.htm - Cached 2010 the hottest year on record. Updated January 21, 2011 09:33:00 ... hottest years on record · Related Story: 2010 on track to be hottest year ... global temperatures have been the highest-ever recorded for a 10-year period since the ...
That's one happy bird in that picture, nice cool sulfur air, and no eco-nuts to bother him. Algore's alchemists have been proven to be frauds.
Like the opposite of AIG's Greenburg. Or Goldman's Blankfein. Or JPM's Dimon. or bp's Tony Hayward. # # Facing Our Ecocidal Views After BP'S Gulf Disaster | crowsnestecology.wordpress.com/.../facing-our-ecocidal-views-after... - Cached May 28, 2010 – Speaking on BBC Radio, BP's CEO Tony Hayward opposed a ban saying ... And as the scale of these ecocidal events has grown it becomes more ... Or Exxon's resident pig in charge. OR, well, the list is so long. TEPCO's shitforbrains ceo... Everyone doing nothing more than what out of control yeast do. Eat and shit as fast as possible... thinking of nothing but their own fat ass... You know after 30 years of Reaganaut/Ayn Rand Selfish will Save us, you'd thin k we'd be the shining city on the hill by now. What's Up with that? LMFAO July 4, 2011 SERFdom Day 8D
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The Crazy shit of all thinking that there's gonna be something left in 20 years. That somehow all the radiation all the vacuuming of the oceans and replacing with all of our plASTIC... all the coral long ago bleached and gone... all the deserts getting larger, and the rest underwater... but no... they don't give a rat's ass about the next generation. yeast.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestLONDON (Reuters) - Smoke belching from Asia's rapidly growing economies is largely responsible for a halt in global warming in the decade after 1998 because of sulphur's cooling effect, even though greenhouse gas emissions soared, a U.S. study said on Monday.
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no eco-nuts to bother him.
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