Re: For those who don't read the New Scientist: GLOBAL WARMING HIDDEN BYSMOKE SCREEN

[Bob LaMontagne <rlamont@POSTOFFICE.PROVIDENCE.EDU>]

???? Global Warming seems to one of the few theories where the failure to
get the predicted result is heralded as proof of the theory. Volcanoes, "El
Nino", now smoke from burning jungles -  what is the next "proof"?

Bob at PC

Bernard Cleyet wrote:

> GLOBAL WARMING HIDDEN BY SMOKE SCREEN
>
> NEW SCIENTIST - Smoke is clouding our view of global warming, protecting
> the planet from perhaps three-quarters of the greenhouse effect. That
> might sound like good news, but experts say that as the cover diminishes
> in coming decades, we are in for a dramatic escalation of warming that
> could be two or even three times as great as official best guesses. This
> was the dramatic conclusion reached last week at a workshop in Dahlem,
> Berlin, where top atmospheric scientists got together, including Nobel
> laureate Paul Crutzen and Swedish meteorologist Bert Bolin, former
> chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. IPCC
> scientists have suspected for a decade that aerosols of smoke and other
> particles from burning rainforest, crop waste and fossil fuels are
> blocking sunlight and counteracting the warming effect of carbon dioxide
> emissions. Until now, they reckoned that aerosols reduced greenhouse
> warming by perhaps a quarter, cutting increases by 0.2 °C. So the 0.6 °C
> of warming over the past century would have been 0.8 °C without
> aerosols.