Global Warming denial an article of religious faith | BBC
July 5, 2011 at 2:01 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2011 at 2:20 pm by Anymouse.)
A new study out indicates that the reason global temperature rise has flattened in the last ten or so years is due to one thing: China's coal use.
Like in the 1950's, when the USA and Europe increased exponentially coal use, China is doing the same. And in addition to the long-term problem of carbon dioxide, there are the short term sulphur particles (which are the principle ingredient of smog). Sulphur acts as a reflector of sunlight. In the 1960's in the Occident, when smog problems and acid rain started getting very bad, Western nations started requiring such things as stack scrubbers to remove sulphur.
By doing so, they removed the short-term sulphur, but the carbon dioxide remained, creating a spike in temperatures. This study purports to show that China's coal use doubled from 1980 to 2003, and again from 2003 to 2007, when the IPCC climate commission report came out. Since the IPCC report, China's coal consumption has risen another 30%. The report convincingly shows the addition of short-term sulphur compounds to the air from China's use of coal is what has caused the flattening of temperatures in the last few years.
Scientists who worked on the coal study, and others, point this was the last missing piece of the climate rise puzzle, why temperatures have flattened out over the last few years. They point out that climate change deniers such as Faux News are now only accepting it on faith. They believe in a myth. And we know just how well mythology and faith go over on a forum like this one.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14002264 BBC
http://www.pnas.org/content/101/2/423.fu...e90603626c Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Soot Climate Forcing Via Snow and Ice Albedos
James. Trying to keep you cool.
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