Climate alarmist Eric Holthaus highlighted a new study today that says aerosols in the atmosphere “have a net cooling effect on the planet” and “without them, global warming would be magnified”:
This is a pretty important result:
Aerosols (tiny specks of dust, smoke, salt, and organic molecules) have a net cooling effect on the planet. Without them, global warming would be magnified. This paper finds that their effect might be about 40% stronger than we thought. https://t.co/74b5wqYfFO— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) January 7, 2020
And this is bad news because if this is true, as the world cuts its emissions, global warming will increase:
Great news, right?! Wrong!
If we are going to rapidly reduce emissions in the next decade, which we will, that means we'll be producing less smoke and air pollution from burning fossil fuels. We'll clear the air of lots of aerosols. That will happen very quickly.
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) January 7, 2020
We can’t win?
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This is the catch-22 of our climate emergency: Continued near-term warming is inevitable, either through continuing to burn fossil fuels, or by unleashing the aerosol effect via rapid emissions reductions.
I wrote about this awhile back:https://t.co/gqjdedi8Mp
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) January 7, 2020
Or maybe not!
This is a highly dynamic and controversial area of climate science. There was another study a few months ago that found that this effect would probably remain small and only last for 5 years or so.https://t.co/SXgF9y1D5a
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) January 7, 2020
Either way, we’re in a “climate emergency,” people:
But it's increasingly clear that there is no way around the mess that continued unrestrained capitalism has caused.
Every year we wait to take bold action makes the problem exponentially worse.
We are in a climate emergency, and we must act as though our lives depend on it.
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) January 7, 2020
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