Water causes global warming
I'm no fan of the Kyoto accord, but I won't deny that it appears the world is warming up. The evidence of glacial ice melting and arctic sea ice retreating is fairly obvious.
What is not obvious is what is causing this and whether it is normal or not. The climate has changed before, sometimes radically (ie. ice ages), and it will change again due to some cosmic reason.
The question at play in the current political world is Kyoto. Kyoto calls for reductions of greenhouse gases, such as methane and carbon dioxide. This is based on the work of the UN IPCC which published reports for years.
This article points out a key piece of information that appears to have been ignored by the IPCC and the researchers. And it sounds like it could be very important, and even more fundamental to the world economy that burning fossil fuels.
If human-induced increases to water evaporation, from irrigation, industrial use or even household humidifiers is a primary cause of global warming, what exactly are we supposed to do about it? Stop farming? Stop using steam for industrial processes? Stop using lakes, rivers and oceans as heat sinks for cooling our industries? Egads - this is worse than stopping the use of fossil fuels...
What is not obvious is what is causing this and whether it is normal or not. The climate has changed before, sometimes radically (ie. ice ages), and it will change again due to some cosmic reason.
The question at play in the current political world is Kyoto. Kyoto calls for reductions of greenhouse gases, such as methane and carbon dioxide. This is based on the work of the UN IPCC which published reports for years.
This article points out a key piece of information that appears to have been ignored by the IPCC and the researchers. And it sounds like it could be very important, and even more fundamental to the world economy that burning fossil fuels.
If human-induced increases to water evaporation, from irrigation, industrial use or even household humidifiers is a primary cause of global warming, what exactly are we supposed to do about it? Stop farming? Stop using steam for industrial processes? Stop using lakes, rivers and oceans as heat sinks for cooling our industries? Egads - this is worse than stopping the use of fossil fuels...
posted by Technical Bard | 19:58
3 Comments:
Climate never, ever, ever changes. Nope. Those trees on Greenland when the earth was warmer - never existed, the evidence is all Hollywood props.
Listen to the environmentalists - they'll tell you how to run your life...
If the earth is warming in a way we don't like, and we want to do something about it...
Why do people think our solution has to involve addressing the cause of the warming? Couldn't we just manage to total energy being added to the earth by hanging a filter at L1?
Separatist,
We could manage this another way, by reducing the light that reaches the earth (your filter idea would be one way) or by removing the greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
OR - we could just adapt to the changing conditions the way life has for the last 4 billion years...
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