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Cleaner skies means more global warming
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Thursday 10th July, 2008 (ANI)
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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politically incorrect and proud of it
07-10-08, 08:03 PM |
Cleaner skies means more global warming
Wow...the sun causes global warming...imagine that! (sarcasm) This proves how idiotic the global warming hoax is. Of course the sun will warm the earth...that’s what it’s supposed to do!
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Alexandra
07-10-08, 10:26 PM |
Cleaner skies means more global warming
I wonder if our “enlightened” leaders will finally get the message? And the teachers that are filling the kids head with junk science will finally admit that AlGORE is full of it!
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waltky
07-15-08, 07:14 PM |
Not a pleasant experience...
:eek:
Kidney Stone Ailments Forecast To Go Up 25 Percent In 2050 Due To Global Warming
July 15, 2008 - A University of Texas Southwestern Medical School study linked the rise in kidney stone ailments to global warming.
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The connection of kidney stone with warm weather has been established based on statistics that southeastern states have 50 percent higher incident than northeastern states. Kidney stones, although on the rise nationwide since 1976, were observed to have higher rates of occurrence during summer. With global warming even the northeastern region will likely experience higher incidents with an estimated 1.6 million new cases by 2050.
The rise in kidney stone incidents by 25 percent in 2050 will be accompanied by a corresponding annual $900 million hike in kidney-related treatment bills compared with 2000 levels. The high-risk zones will expand to 56 percent of states by 2050 and 70 percent by 2095. David Goldfarb of the New York University Medical center said, quoted by the USA Today, “Everyone on warmer temperatures is at higher risk for kidney stones, so the findings make perfect sense."
Aside from an expected rise in kidney stone ailments, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said global warming may also bring with it more deadly heat waves, algae blooms that infect marine life with toxins and the faster spread of certain insect-borne diseases like Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
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waltky
07-22-08, 01:12 AM |
Getting drier?
:confused:
Is world’s wettest place getting drier?
Monday, 21 July 2008 - World’s wettest town hit by changing weather
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The town of Cherrapunjee, in the north-eastern Indian state of Meghalaya, is reputed to be the wettest place in the world. But there are signs that its weather patterns may be being hit by global climate change. “Not without reason has Cherrapunjee achieved fame as being the place with the heaviest rainfall on earth," wrote German missionary Christopher Becker more than 100 years ago.
“One must experience it to have an idea of the immense quantity of rain which comes down from the skies, at times day and night without a stop. It is enough to go a few steps from the house to be drenched from head to foot. An umbrella serves no purpose."
Late monsoon
But according to Cherrapunjee’s most renowned weather-watcher, Denis Rayen, the climate of the town is changing fast. “In the days of the Raj, the British used to come here to the the Khasi hills to escape the heat - we are 4,823ft (1,484m) above sea level," he says. “But today I am not sure they would be able to do that, because it is getting a lot hotter here and the monsoon is arriving later."
Official figures compiled by the Indian Meteorological Office in the nearby city of Guwahati back up Mr Rayen’s arguments that north-east India as a whole is getting hotter. “The average temperature for Guwahati at this time of the year should be around 32C - but this year the temperature has been as high as 38C," said weather expert Harendas Das.
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fletcher
07-24-08, 01:24 AM |
Global Warming is not a threat.
Global warming is natural. Planet Earth switches to extreme high and low temperatures. If we consider the history of ice ages happened to our earth, we can realize that the global warming is no more a threat. We can make use the solar power to enhance our lives.
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