Re: Global warming myths (was: Kyoto, Driving our car)

Michael Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Thu, 11 Dec 1997 06:46:08 -0500

Hal Finney wrote:
>
> mark@unicorn.com writes:
> > Ah, found it; http://www.vision.net.au/~daly/sonde.htm shows a graph
> > from the fifties to nineties; assuming it's accurate, the temperature
> > measured by balloons has dropped nearly 1C in that time. Of course if
> > you cut off the ends the temperature rises rather than falls, but this
> > is what's so dubious about greenhouse science; you can prove anything
> > by choosing the right dates.
>
>
> The purpose of the paper was to look at climate models and see if any
> of them predicted the same distribution of temperatures. It appears
> that models which include carbon dioxide along with sulfate aerosols do
> reproduce the data relatively well. Adding an ozone contribution makes
> the fit even better. CO2 cools the upper atmosphere and warms the lower,
> while the sulfate aerosols are concentrated in the northern hemisphere
> near industrial sources, and provide cooling.
>

SO essentially, then, we can blame automobile emissions controls laws
for the reduction in cooling in the Northern Hemisphere???? If we had
more sulfate pollution there wouldn't be any warming trend???

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