On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 10:18:17AM +1300, LizR wrote: > [image: Inline images 1] > > > On 16 November 2013 09:54, Richard Ruquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Liz, Global temperatures fell from 1950 to 1980 while CO2 atm content was > > rising. Can you explain that? Richard > > > PS on the subject of the plateau shown above - maybe those other factors > deniers are always going on about were involved? Pollution increasing the > Earth's albedo, solar cycles, something to do with the second world war or > nuclear testing, whatever? Show me a graph measured by NASA or the Arctic > Institute where the temperature (and preferably the CO2) go back to their > 1900 level and you'll have something worth discussing. >
This is due to the presence of aerosols. Ironically, cleaning up our pollution has caused the planet to warm faster. http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-cooling-mid-20th-century.htm -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
