Soot worse for global warming than thought
Soot particles may be twice as bad as the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in contributing to global warming, suggests a new study.
Grains of soot deposited in snow have also caused about one-quarter of the observed rise in global surface temperature since 1880, suggests the model by James Hansen and Larissa Nazarenko. The pair examined how soot particles affect the atmosphere when they darken snow and ice.
Darkened snow traps more solar energy than pristine snow. The effect could explain why sea ice and glaciers are melting faster than expected from the increase in surface temperature alone, says Hansen of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.
“The effect of soot on snow is unambiguous,” he told New Scientist. “It causes a strong warming effect.”
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
Google Search
-
Recent Posts
- One Atomic Bomb Per Hour
- New Video : Analyzing Oil And Gas
- Is Antarctica Melting?
- High Speed Analysis And Visualization
- El Nino To The Rescue?
- Fake News Update
- Growth Of Antarctic Sea Ice
- 65 Years Of Progress!
- El Nino To The Rescue?
- Worst March Drought On Record
- ChartGL Process Control Demo
- The Biggest Money Laundering Scam
- Drought In The Headwaters Of Lake Powell
- Unrealistic Expectations Of Water Availability
- Did Bill Gates Do This?
- Worst March Drought On Record In The US
- The Real Hockey Stick Graph
- Analyzing The Western Water Crisis
- Gaslighting 1924
- “Why Do You Resist?”
- Climate Attribution Model
- Fact Checking NASA
- Fact Checking Grok
- Fact Checking The New York Times
- New Visitech Features
Recent Comments
- Bob G on One Atomic Bomb Per Hour
- Bob G on One Atomic Bomb Per Hour
- Crispin Pemberton-Pigott on One Atomic Bomb Per Hour
- Crispin Pemberton-Pigott on One Atomic Bomb Per Hour
- william on 65 Years Of Progress!
- arn on One Atomic Bomb Per Hour
- Gordon Vigurs on One Atomic Bomb Per Hour
- Gordon Vigurs on One Atomic Bomb Per Hour
- Gordon Vigurs on One Atomic Bomb Per Hour
- Bob G on One Atomic Bomb Per Hour
This was obviously a different Hames Hansen.
It was actually James Jansen ;^)
There certainly be more than one Hames Hansen.
¼ of the rise from soot, ½ from the sun, 1/3 (or so) from water vapor, 1/8 from the Earth’s interior. That only leaves about 9/10 for Carbon dioxide, right?
How does someone so clueless find his way to work each morning? Models? If so, he sure as Hell did not design them.
So the Chinese soot is exempt somehow? Because that is apparently causing cooling..
Dust and soot frequently change properties to do the most possible harm to minorities, women and children – and particularly teenage girls like Rebecca Black.