Intervention into the radiative balance is also happening at a global scale.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1169007/Climate-change-goal-Laws-combat-acid-rain-DRIVING-Arctic-warming-claims-Nasa.html
Dan
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Michael Tobis mto...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=geoengineering-wars-another-scienti-2009-10-19
Geoengineering wars: another scientist teases out surprising effect of
global deforestation
AUSTIN—A new and unpublished analysis of the regional impacts of a
hypothetical scheme to mitigate global
Editorial
Nature Geoscience 2, 665 (2009)
doi:10.1038/ngeo655
Fake plastic trees
Abstract
Greenhouse-gas emissions keep rising, despite all efforts at
regulation and international agreement. Geoengineering could provide
a back-up plan.
Introduction
Unless global greenhouse-gas emissions
Hi Dan,
This article is a bit confused. The carbon black (soot) causes warming
by reducing albedo, particularly of snow and ice. The sulphate aerosol
causes cooling, which is why its removal has accelerated global
warming since the 80s. It has probably accelerated Arctic warming
mostly
Clearly, many corrections are in order-- the main point is that direct
modifications to radiative balance have been made in lock step (though not
always in the same ways or proportions) to modifications to the carbon
cycle--- since the beginning of anthropogenic forcing.
The argument that we've
Just a note that I believe some of the bills in Congress tend in these
directions. Congressman Van Hollen has a proposal much like the Hansen one
and I understand that a senator has one that gets income from cap and trade
system and then distributes most of money as suggested by Hansen, but holes
