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Could Removing Global Air Pollution Worsen Climate Change? - senona - 05-26-2016 Oh this it too funny, the irony in the title alone. Imagine the environmentalist do not want to hear this explanation, but here goes.... Quote: Air pollution is a killer, and it’s getting worse. According to a new study of over 3,000 cities around the world conducted by the World Health Organization, the amount of microscopic particle pollution increased 8 percent between 2008 and 2013. The findings were especially bad in low- and middle-income regions, where some 98 percent of cities don’t meet the WHO guidelines on air quality. In wealthy parts of the world, that figure is 56 percent. Quote:But some of those toxic particles have a kind of silver lining: they help cool the planet. That’s particularly true of the sulfur compounds that are commonly emitted from coal-fired power plants. They reflect sunlight back out into space, preventing it from reaching Earth’s surface. Black carbon’s effect is more complex: while the soot particles provide a bit of shade, they also absorb sunlight, heating up the atmosphere at altitudes between two and six kilometers above sea level. Unfortunately, that’s where many of the world’s continental glaciers reside, and black carbon can increase the rate at which they melt. Global Air Pollution Is Getting Worse, but Removing It Could Worsen Climate Change Interesting I must say On the one hand, we all know air pollution is bad for our health. Yet according to the article, the upside to it, is it helps cool the earth. Oh what a conundrum that is. Both good and bad all rolled into one. RE: Could Removing Global Air Pollution Worsen Climate Change? - perfectinsanity - 05-26-2016 Its a damned if you do and a damned if you don't kinda situation huh! I can barely keep up with all this though, they change their minds constantly! Lol RE: Could Removing Global Air Pollution Worsen Climate Change? - senona - 05-26-2016 (05-26-2016, 03:20 AM)perfectinsanity Wrote: Its a damned if you do and a damned if you don't kinda situation huh! I know When I first read the title, I know I stared at it thinking WTH? :huh: But once they explained it, I was like okay.....sure, it kinda makes sense However you know there will be people in an uproar over this claim tho, don't you imagine? RE: Could Removing Global Air Pollution Worsen Climate Change? - Sol - 05-27-2016 Is it just me or is it getting harder and harder to keep up with all of that stuff? Some claim the planet is heating up, some don't. Some claim that all the planets in our solar system are heating up, some say no. Now pollution may be good to cool it off? :goingcrazy: Skin cancer has never been as high as it's now...some say. Others say no... *scratches head I got into a discussion today with a woman that covers herself (almost bathes herself) with sunscreen. She freaked when I told her that I never put any. Do I tan behind my windshield all day long on the road? You bet. But as I told her, one thing I know, my parents, my grand-parents couldn't care less about sunscreen and none of them died of skin cancer. Most of them worked outdoors morning to night, every single day. BTW...When have people started to freak out about UV indexes going through the roof? 10 years or so? I'm leaning more towards a marketing ploy to sell you sunscreen and this and that...oh the solar rays are harmful...Yes, some people do get skin cancer. Does everyone? No. But everyone should bathe in sun lotion. Yep. Okay. If I ever get skin cancer, well....I'm stubborn. I'll blame it on that : ) RE: Could Removing Global Air Pollution Worsen Climate Change? - senona - 05-27-2016 Speaking of sunscreen, now many doctors are speaking out because it prevents them from getting natural Vitamin D from the sun. I too work outdoors and do not use that crap. Should I? Maybe But I never have, never will Yes, bottom line in all if this, is money. Climate change as a whole is going to cost the public. And the only thing it will effect will be our wallets All the while, nothing will change the climate from evolving. RE: Could Removing Global Air Pollution Worsen Climate Change? - Sol - 05-27-2016 Quote:Climate change as a whole is going to cost the public. Words of the Wise. |