2007-08-2
15:50
Explaining glacier melt without carbon dioxide
Posted by Luke Schierer under Global Warming | Permalink | | Leave A Comment
Looking at the effect of brown clouds over the Indian Ocean, a group of United States researchers have managed to explain the fact that glaciers in the Himalayas are melting without resorting to blaming any and all warming on carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases.1 They claim the warming is caused by the pollution put out from burning wood and fossil fuels. The answer to both of these problems is to improve the power generation in Asia, and the general standard of living.
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BBC News. “Asia’s brown clouds ‘warm planet’” World News Summary 2007-08-01. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6926597.stm ↩
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I think you may be missing part of the information. If you read the abstract of the actual paper in Nature, you will see that the next to last sentence reads as follows: “Our general circulation model simulations, [...] suggest that atmospheric brown clouds contribute as much as the recent increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gases to regional lower atmospheric warming trends”.