Cleaner skies means more global warming

[Wretched Excess]

this just in . . . . all scientific texts that purport to prove global warming have been altered
so that the first paragraph reads, "In the beginning, there was global warming".

that is all.

Cleaner skies means more global warming

London, July 10 : For past three decades, Europe has been following the trend of saying goodbye to air pollution and smoky chimneys but a new study has shown that cleaning up the skies has allowed more of the sun's rays to pierce the atmosphere, contributing to at least half the global warming that has occurred.

Average air temperatures in Europe have risen 1C since 1980, which is much more than expected from greenhouse-gas warming alone.

For the study, Christian Ruckstuhl of the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science in Switzerland and colleagues took aerosol concentrations from six locations in northern Europe, measured between 1986 and 2005, and compared them with solar-radiation measurements over the same period.

They found that aerosol concentrations dropped by up to 60 per cent over the 29-year period, while solar radiation rose by around 1 watt per square metre.

"The decrease in aerosols probably accounts for at least half of the warming over Europe in the last 30 years," New Scientist quoted Rolf Philipona, a co-author of the study at MeteoSwiss, Switzerland's national weather service, as saying.

The latest climate models are based on the assumption that aerosols have their biggest influence by seeding natural clouds, which reflect sunlight.

However, the researchers found that radiation dropped only slightly on cloudy days, suggesting that the main impact of aerosols is to block sunlight directly.

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[Thor]

There we go, it IS our fault!!!     It's been said that the lack of volcanic activity has caused the Earth to get warmer for many years. So, with the lack of volcanic activity and mankind not polluting enough is what's causing the warming.

[Jim]

Finally someone is trying to do something about the biggest cause of greenhouse gasses

[Splashdown]

I'm doing all I can. Both cars are idling in my driveway and the A/C is on full blast! 

I'm trying to increase my carbon footprint!!!1111111oneeleven!

[Wretched Excess]

in a related piece of insanity, a "scientist" claims that the glaciers on mt. shasta are growing because of global warming.

"When people look at glaciers around the world, the majority of them are shrinking," said Slawek Tulaczyk, an assistant professor of earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. "These glaciers seem to be benefiting from the warming ocean."

there are some things that are just so freaking dumb, that only a "scientist" or "academician" is capable of thinking them.