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2010-04-19 Science & Technology

Clean Air causes Global Warming - women and minorities to be hurt most

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Posted by lord garth 2010-04-19 10:53|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Not to worry, LA Slimes - Iceland's fixing that right up. ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-04-19 19:49|| 2010-04-19 19:49|| Front Page Top

#2 The main effect of particulate pollution (smoke) is to limit the amount of sunshine that reaches the Earth's surface early morning and late afternoon, when sunlight travels obliquely through the atmosphere.

And surprise, surprise, most of the warming is found in the early morning when daily minimum temps occur. Which BTW is exactly opposite to what greenhouse gas warming would cause.

Yet another dirty secret in the GW scam.

Posted by phil_b 2010-04-19 21:38|| 2010-04-19 21:38|| Front Page Top

#3 It's not as bad as this article makes out. Sure, we don't produce as much air pollution as before, but we now import it from China.

Posted by ed 2010-04-19 21:45|| 2010-04-19 21:45|| Front Page Top

#4 I remember as a kid 50 years ago in the UK, the morning ritual of lighting the coal fire. Huge amounts of smoke were produce for 5 to 20 minutes until the coal lit properly.

Now multiply that by a couple of hundred million households across Europe to get the scale of the smoke blanket that 50 years later has almost entirely disapeared.

So the article is wrong (and merely propagates popular prejudice). Industrial smoke pollution was small compared to domestic smoke pollution.

Posted by phil_b 2010-04-19 22:17|| 2010-04-19 22:17|| Front Page Top

#5 "Running short/low on air pollution"???> Why not?

To wit,

COASTTOCOAST AM > IIRC MAIL.UK ARTIC > Apparently, Perts are now claiming that, as per the ICELAND VOLCANO ERUPTION, KEEPING MAJOR AIRLINE PLANES ON THE GROUND ADDS TO GLOBAL WARMING???

As does FLYING.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-04-19 22:57|| 2010-04-19 22:57|| Front Page Top

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