From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jul 25 2002 - 15:16:56 MDT
--- CurtAdams@aol.com wrote:
> The "eco-doomsayers" may, actually, have slowed
> things down a
> bit as frenzied paranoia about ozone has diverted
> resources from
> particulate pollution, which turns out to be the
> real problem.
Actually, particulate pollution may be a hidden
blessing. Particulates serve a highly useful function
in the global warming equation as a coolant,
reflecting vast quantities of sunlight away from
earth. The recent drifting smoke from forest fires in
northern Quebec that smothered the east coast
essentially doused a blistering heat wave, dropping
temperatures from 95-97 down to the mid 70's in one
day.
I would posit that it is the Clean Air Act that is the
greatest contributor to any anthropogenic global
warming effect that may be occuring, since it's major
area of improvement in the last 30 years has been
major reductions in air particulates, primarily from
cleaning up coal burning sources and cutting
automobile-genic particulates. Note that basically ALL
of the warming in the last century was in the last 30 years.
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