Global Warming and Soot
One piece of evidence commonly cited against
global warming is that the temperature didn't seem to go up much between 1940
and 1970.
It went up a lot from 1910 to 1940, and from 1970 to now, but there was a lull for several decades that definitely had increasing industrialization and greenhouse gas production.
I have no data at all to support what I'm about to say. It just seems plausible.
We all know that major volcanic eruptions can drop global temperatures for years. The atmospheric dust essentially shades the earth. Big eruptions lead to cold winters. And it seems to me that WWII might have cranked a comparable amount of crap into the air over a 6 year period, what with all the explosions.
Furthermore, in addition to greenhouse gases, our massive industrialization has generated lots of other pollution, especially soot. This pollution was way nastier in the 50s and 60s, and in the 70s we started cleaning up our act. I figure that pollution -- in addition to choking us all -- might well have been reducing the greenhouse effect. Clean air equals warm air.
So, gee, if global warming gets too bad, we can just set off lots of atmospheric nukes to counteract it. Hooray.
It went up a lot from 1910 to 1940, and from 1970 to now, but there was a lull for several decades that definitely had increasing industrialization and greenhouse gas production.
I have no data at all to support what I'm about to say. It just seems plausible.
We all know that major volcanic eruptions can drop global temperatures for years. The atmospheric dust essentially shades the earth. Big eruptions lead to cold winters. And it seems to me that WWII might have cranked a comparable amount of crap into the air over a 6 year period, what with all the explosions.
Furthermore, in addition to greenhouse gases, our massive industrialization has generated lots of other pollution, especially soot. This pollution was way nastier in the 50s and 60s, and in the 70s we started cleaning up our act. I figure that pollution -- in addition to choking us all -- might well have been reducing the greenhouse effect. Clean air equals warm air.
So, gee, if global warming gets too bad, we can just set off lots of atmospheric nukes to counteract it. Hooray.
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