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Cleaner Air Adds To Global Warming
shmlco writes "In the "You Can't Win For Losing" department, an article on the BBC web site is reporting that reduced air pollution and increased water evaporation appears to be adding to man-made global warming. Research presented at a major European science meeting adds to other evidence that cleaner air is letting more solar energy through to the Earth's surface.
Burn fossil fuels, you make things worse. Clean up your act, and you make things worse. Is it time to set off a few nukes and see if nuclear winter can cool things down?"
I submitted this story last week but the faggots-that-be rejected it.
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Hey Al Gore invented the Internet... he knows what he is talking about.
Correct, I but water is also a great absorbsion media for the radiation, the worst that happens is you get deuterium and tritium in the exchange.
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Thats why (although not obvious) I was talking about oceanic based blasts. (the bikin mention the artic, etc)
The isotope problem is much harder to deal with long term although strontium90 and cobalt60 have a relatively short half-life (in the scheme of humanity) but they are obviously quite dangerous in the short term being bone seekers.
Everything being in "Direct line of sight" is a whopping 14 miles for a surface blast in the ocean
We were taught fairly in depth nuclear physics in grade school, now the grade school I went to was a bit different and I was in College by age 12 but nonetheless, its not.....errrr "Rocket Science" but we learned some pretty advanced aeronautical engineering to....oh well, im sure there is something I dont know.....
I got it, spelling and grammer
If you die without having reproduced, I would be able consume even more, produce more than two children, or live in a world that's just slightly less overpopulated. Why is that such a bad scenario? What are you doing that's so important, anyway?
Bob, Sue, Joe, Me. You killing yourself benefits everyone if the world is overpopulated. Stop being so selfish.
it's Global Extreme Temperature Variation.
Most alterations in global temperatures (setting off warm or cold periods) are sudden massive shifts to very hot AND very cold temperatures, oscillating wildly, before setting into a new pattern.
But Global Warming is what we call that, in this case. Although it can trigger another ice age, which could occur in a period of 4-10 years (and has in the past).
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Because it's stupid. Really very stupid.
There are different types of pollution, you know. CO2 or other greenhouse gas pollution increases GW. Smoke, particulate matter, sulphides etc cause cloud formations or darken the sky, (temporarily) reducing the effect of global warming. It's not a case of making no difference either way, but one of reducing one type of emmission whilst continuing to produce another would cause problems in this specific area. Your statement is like saying that because voting republican or not voting democrat would both get a republican president in office, your vote doesn't matter.
Hell, the article isn't even news. We've known about this for ages. The point in the end is that dust and so on don't hang around long in the atmosphere. In the long term, a strategy of polluting and hoping it all cancels out will always fail.
And crippling policies is according to those with vested interests. According to many studies, regulations enacted properly will in fact encourage growth - whilst the already stagnant and declining fossil fuel sector would suffer, the developing renewables sector would have new incentives to develop.
which is increasing at ten times the prior rate, according to a recent Arctic and Pacific expedition that returned to Seattle this past week.
face it, we're already in for a world of hurt, it's just how bad it's going to be before we get a cluestick.
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