BBC: Air trends 'amplifying' warming

[Dead_Parrot]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4880328.stm

Reduced air pollution and increased water evaporation appear to be adding to man-made global warming.

Research presented at a major European science meeting adds to other evidence that cleaner air is letting more solar energy through to the Earth's surface.

Other studies show that increased water vapour in the atmosphere is reinforcing the impact of man-made greenhouse gas emissions.

Scientists suggest both trends may push temperatures higher than believed.

But they say there is an urgent need for further research, particularly at sea.

[sailingaway]

1. let see...

we spend 150 years burning the carbon that nature spent several billion years filtering out of the air, and yet there are people who dont seem to get it.

[rfkrfk]

2. research, studies, ya, whatever

bla,bla,bla

[YankeyMCC]

3. Man this was a WTF moment for me

when I saw this headline this morning on bbc online.

There has to be something going on. Some sort of wacko research funding cycle or something. Yesterday I hear a report on how vitamins are bad for you today clean air is bad for the environment.

:wtf:

[Odin2005]

4. No, It's an explanation for the cool period in the 50's, 60's, 70's.

Back then people were scared a new ice age was comming, which is funny because it was warmer in the 60's than it was in the 1800's. The sad part is that the global warming denialists use the "new ice age" hype of the time to somehow invalidate Globl Warming as just another intellectual fad, the denialists apparently never learned that the paleoclimate knoledge back then was much lower then than it is now.

[blackhorse]

5. Yeah, it'll keep warming ...

until thermohaline circulation reaches the critical point called collapse, and then the opposite problem will kick in.

I recently re-read the Office of Net Assessment's (Pentagon: Andrew Marshall) paper on the national security implications of climate change. Some of the passages in the document sound eerily like weather I'm seeing in Europe now. And that document was "hopeful" in the sense that the predicted cooling event depicted was a minor blip compared to the Younger Dryas.

One thing is certain, people won't take the disappearance of their habitats with studied calm and a stiff upper lip.

BH