Turns Out We’ve Been Cooling the Planet, But Thanks to Environmental Laws We’ll Be Warming the Globe Faster – IOTW Report

Turns Out We’ve Been Cooling the Planet, But Thanks to Environmental Laws We’ll Be Warming the Globe Faster

The Washington Post

[…] But fewer people know that burning fossil fuels doesn’t just cause global warming – it also causes global cooling. It is one of the great ironies of climate change that air pollution, which has killed tens of millions, has also curbed some of the worst effects of a warming planet.

Tiny particles from the combustion of coal, oil and gas can reflect sunlight and spur the formation of clouds, shading the planet from the sun’s rays. Since the 1980s, those particles have offset between 40 and 80 percent of the warming caused by greenhouse gases.

And now, as society cleans up pollution, that cooling effect is waning. New regulations have cut the amount of sulfur aerosols from global shipping traffic across the oceans; China, fighting its own air pollution problem, has slashed sulfur pollution dramatically in the last decade. More

18 Comments on Turns Out We’ve Been Cooling the Planet, But Thanks to Environmental Laws We’ll Be Warming the Globe Faster

  1. The globull warming/globull cooling soothsayers have been completely wrong with every prediction that that they’ve broadcast as gospel my entire lifetime. They’re just lucky that they still fall behind all the nuts predicting the rapture since time immemorial. Both are and have been 100% wrong in their gloom and doom predictions.

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  2. 1960: Oil Gone in Ten Years
    1967 Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
    1968- Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
    1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989
    1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources by 2000
    1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas masks by 1985
    1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
    1970: Decaying Pollution on Will kill all the fish
    1970: Ice Age By 2000
    1970: America Subject to Water Rationing by 1974 and food Rationing by 1980
    1971: New Ice Ace coming By 2020 or 2030
    1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
    1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
    1974: Another Ice Age
    1974: Ozone Depletion a “Great Peril to Life”
    1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
    1977. Department of Energy Says oil will Peak in the 1990s
    1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend
    1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes
    1980: Peak oil In 2000
    1980s: The Hole in the Ozone “threat”
    1988: Regional Droughts in 1990s
    1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record highs
    1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018
    1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
    1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019
    1996: Peak oil in 2020
    2000: Children wont know what Snow is
    2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
    2002: Peak oil in 2010
    2004: Britain will be Siberia by 2024
    2005: Manhattan Underwater by 2015
    2006: Super Hurricanes are coming!
    2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
    2008: Climate genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
    2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save The Planet.
    2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to “Save The Planet from Catastrophe”
    2009: Climate Genius Al Core Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice Free Arctic to 2014
    2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015
    2014: Only 500 Days Before “Climate Chaos”
    2019: Retard sez: “how dare you doubt that Global Warming is really, really, really, really, really, really, really gonna happen this time! How DARE you!” “The world will end in 5 years”
    2022: Due to global warming, global climate models predict hurricanes will cause more intense rainfall and have an increased coastal flooding.
    2023: MSM – Maui fires caused by cLIEmate Change

    Remember the bearded old guy with the sandwich sign that said: “REPENT! THE END IS NIGH!” Now he’s wandering around with one that sez: These Global Warmists Are Nukin Futs!

    And Oh By The Way… these are the same liars who tell us fairy tales like:
    White supremacy
    Systemic racism
    Conservatives are domestic terrorists
    Afghanistan was perfectly executed
    Our hospitals are over-loaded with COVID victims
    The open Southern border is secure
    Joe Biden has over-performed
    Joe Biden is so sharp we can’t keep up with him!
    Our burning cities were “mostly peaceful protests”
    There was no election fraud
    Aaaaaaaannnnnnd inflation is good! It make the most robust economy we’ve ever had!

    Hand me the phone, I’m calling BULLSHIT!

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  3. Oh yeah –
    2024: We’re seeing temperatures never before seem by Man!

    Spare me…

    SOME of these fuckers have no idea what’s going on or what they are doing.
    Theyre whatcha call Usefull Idiots.
    But make no mistake that this is all being driven by Elites who are making money hand-over-fist on this so-called “Green” agenda! The “Green” is MUNEY! And LOTS of it!

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  4. A simple profit making distraction by the commie leftists, for the leftists.
    Their entire program is dedicated to profit, scare tactics, submission, control and/or all the above.

    They wear Satan on their sleeve and they can no longer hide it nor disguise it.

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  5. Most people do not realize we are still in an ice age. At present, the earth is apparently in an interglacial warming period, but we are still in an ice age none-the-less.

    Before we take drastic measures to correct a perceived problem, we need to more completely understand (a) how climate works, and (b) how any widespread action on our part affects the climate. For example, in “Playing God In Yellowstone,” the author advocates a case that trying to regulate Yellowstone’s wildlife has, in many instances, done more harm than good. As another example, some states (I’m looking at you California) decided it was a good idea to prevent forests from ever catching fire – making the inevitable forest fires hotter and more destructive that nature intended. It seems our politicians and environmentalists really didn’t understand how forests work or what adverse outcomes are likely if forests are not permitted to burn once in a while.

    When it comes to climate change, too many people are content to have politicians decide the issues and the purported remedies. Newsome decided to blow up dams so salmon could get to spawning grounds, and now water necessary for agriculture may be restricted in many areas. The government declared a war on poverty 60 years ago, but we still have a lot of poverty and, particularly in black communities, the family unit has been damaged or destroyed. Our politicians are good at getting elected and then getting re-elected, and that’s about the extent of their expertise in anything.

    I’m not advocating ignoring the issue of global climate change or trashing the earth just for fun and profit. I am saying that we should damn well know how climate works and gauge whether or not we are potentially doing more damage.

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  6. @ jellybean WEDNESDAY, 26 JUNE 2024, 17:53 AT 5:53 PM

    In 2020 they went from a strategy wherein they always had plausible deniability to being out and proud Satanists. To concede good intentions to the bastards is to be complicit since then.

    Choose sides, either you are with the Satanists or you are against the Satanists. There is no in between.

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  7. I just read a science fiction book (Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson) in which sulfur is shot into the atmosphere by a Texas billionaire in a geoengineering attempt to control global warming. I’m a big fan of Stephenson, and any sci-fi story needs suspension of disbelief, so I figured I’d give it a shot. So this idea is out there.

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