Increase in particles high in Earth’s atmosphere has offset some recent climate warming

Well, when Russia, China, Africa, India AND the United States, oops forgot Japan, all getting hit at the same time, plus volcanoes in BOTH HEMISPHERES cranking out extra gases since June, and then Japan keeps taking one hit after another a royal pounding, what can you do? The space between disasters has shrunk.

Not even mentioning the fracking. So I would imagine they're sitting back waiting for a sluce of hurricanes to swoop upon us and replenish the ground water tables, and snows on Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Arctic to pull everything back into proper wheel alignment.

Without anyone having to Repent and change their ways!!! Notice however how the News reports 100+ days of temperatures above 100 degreesF instead of calling it 3 1/2 months, because keeping the terminology in DAYS maintains an illusion of NOT BEING MONTHS... because if people start thinking in terms of MONTHS THEY ALSO START THINKING IN TERMS OF YEARS, which would likely push the herd into a panic~stampede.

And that my friend is what they seek to stall out.

They are very good at using advanced psychological tricks. By being quiet they hope to convince the herd to keep grazing and not see the wolves have multiplied around their borders and have in fact been dragging many more away to be chewed up and eaten.

End Result being the paradigm shift that is needed to happen doesn't happen. Nothing gets released invented by Nikolai Tesla 70-80-90 YEARS AGO; Floyd Sweet's VTA (vacuum triode amplifier) of 1987 doesn't get released. My engine running on recycled compressed air & steam sits on the shelf.

And the herd gets smaller, and smaller, and smaller. I've been dealing with these people since 2003 and so far they have won. They drug us through 7 years of Famine, chained to the back bumper of their pickup truck like rabid chipmunks. And they're doing their best to keep the truck gas mashed to the floor.

I imagine the goal is for one of the presidential candidates to start pulling energy out of a hat to secure the next election. Enjoy the highway.

hahaha Perhaps, the same way all the bulbs mysteriously blew out the first time they fired up the Hadron Collider. Aliens, or a God protecting His property. More than a few subscribe to that idea, recalling "we" [the stum-bumbling experimenters of all time] managed not to blow ourselves to smithereenies while testing the A-bombs.

There does seem to be an obvious pattern. Good detective tverdell.

Not as much as the heat rising from our WALLETS BURNING IN OUR PANTS.

Yep, when one tipping point is passed other tipping points are triggered. Like dominoes... So if the sulfur dioxide was to suddenly cut by 50% ~while holding current CO2 levels~ we could be roasting. Except hmm, we're already roasting.

ENTER THE DRAGON => DOUBLE BOILERS.

You present a great case for geothermal energy!
I hope you are right about an increase in volcanic activity globally explaining the doubling of atmospheric aerosols since 2000 because the alternative explanations are deeply troubling.

watched intense moisture venting outside of Las Vegas and into S CA all day yesterday. Lots of old volcanoes doing something out there. If I knew someone in the area,I'd ask them to go look.

today I believe HAARP has been tickling the New Madrid

Now an eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano would REALLY cool the planet!
And frankly it might be the best thing that could happen to halt manmade extinctions.

I'm presently rereading Angels Don't Play This HAARP (Manning/Begich 1995) and WOW what an important book! High-frequency Active Auroral Research Project, originating with Reagan's SDI/Star Wars program, is a MUST READ for anyone interested in how seriously our government is fucking up the planet. It is certainly a good canidate for the doubling of atmospheric aerosols since 2000 as one of it's goals is to generate ozone in the upper stratosphere.

Adding more variables only accentuates the problem => SPIKES WORSEN. SPOT SPIKES.

What else can you expect from humans?

While I totally agree with most of your post I don't interpret this article as disputing global warming and climate change. It implies that, if not for the mysterious doubling of atmospheric aerosols since 2000, Earth's surface temperatures would be much hotter. It also refutes the deniers #1 claim that volcanoes are the main cause of global warming.
What I find most disturbing is the doubling of atmospheric aerosols ever since W. Bush was "elected." This implies that geoengineering has been secretly occurring on a large scale for the past decade!

Oh, I understand it doesn't dispute climate change and that Co2 is part of it. I am saying that it will most definitely be used by certain elements to do so and that we should not forget that we need to continue to keep working on natural ways to address climate change. Although, I was also thinking that it may be in part due to India and China burning more fossil fuels that emit S02 combined with some sort of geoengineering scheme that has clandestinely been in effect since Bush and being carried on still, hence the hesitancy in committing to any real action on it.

I EXPECT LESS BUMPS ON NEW RADIAL TIRES ACTUALLY!!!

Say Jan, I seem to recall that sulfur isn't so hot FOR HUMAN LUNGS EITHER.

We're saved. We're saved. BY ACCIDENT, and all we had ta do was submit to increased EMPHYSEMA / LUNG CANCER!!! China, they saved our BACON WITHOUT MEANING TO!!!

(OK. Protected their own future Property!)

Also sulfur (S02) creates acid rain which acidifies lakes and oceans and kills trees.

That's RIGHT!!! Thanks. I had forgotten that. So now we're back to the Chinese trying to kill us! HA HA! I feel better now.

Sulfur dioxide I think it comes from diesel trucks REAL BAD. Diesel exhaust is right vile, and some truckers when they filter truck oil they dump the used oil into their diesel fuel tanks. Those are the worst. I think they save $$$ not having to pay a fee for the old oil to be discarded properly. Just burn it out the stack.

I breathed a lot of exhaust when I was driving. The rubber boot around the shift stick on the floor would wear out and break and the mechanics had other things to do. Suction would pull some fumes in through the cracked/split rubber....

An engine that has no exhaust would be nice.

Sulfur dioxide doesn't come all by itself. Much mercury is pouring into the environment off all those extra coal plants. WHICH MEANS if the planet has an increase of one it also has an increase of the other. DUH. I, unlike everyone else, still eats plenty of SARDINES => SO I KNOW THESE THINGS OF WHICH I SPEAK!!!

You misunderstand. Climatologists have been studying the Areosol Effect for decades and it is critically important to understand it's huge role in global warming. For instance, leading scientists in the field have proposed that the sudden warming in the 1980s partly resulted from the removal of S02 from smoke stacks to stop acid rain. That does not mean that the scientists promote acid rain or think that C02 is not responsible for global warming. They are merely attempting to better understand what causes warming and cooling of the atmosphere.

In order to refute the deniers we need to understand this phenomenon ourselves. Deniers usually
begin their argument claiming that volcanoes contribute to warming far more than humans ever could, and yet in fact volcanoes cool the climate with sulfur (S02).

What I got from this article is that it would be a hell of a lot hotter from atmospheric carbon today if not for these mysterious aerosols. This is not propaganda but pure science. Gaia theorist James Lovelock has long pointed out that we are currently living in a "fool's climate" due to the aerosols from pollution and that if we suddenly stopped producing these aerosols the global temperature would spike by several degrees very quickly.

I hesitated posting this article because I could see how easily it could be misuderstood by both greens and deniers. Yet I also see how important it is for both greens and deniers to better understandthe role of carbon and sulfur in the atmosphere.

You are wonderfully informed on these subjects in general, and I applaud you for it!

Admittedly, I am not sufficiently informed to question facts. But you cite James Lovelock as being a theorist, drawing suppositions from facts. In thought, there seems to be a question which I don't believe anyone is capable of answering with certainty. If the aerosol particles trap heat within our atmosphere, it must also shield and screen a certain amount of solar heat from entering our atmosphere. If science has conceived of a flawless way to quantify those two opposing forces, I applaud them as well. It occurs to me that any such statement on that issue must also be theory, however.

What I take into question most, however, and challenge, are the assertions of those who seek to justify the further polluting of our atmosphere for some alleged benefit, or doubt about it's destructiveness. The balance supporting this planet's life cycle was achieved very slowly over a long period of time. To suggest that it could become out of balance; short of a cataclysmic natural phenomenon, and therefore benefit from human industrial pollution on the scale which has and is occurring; which this article seems to permit, is extremely dangerous, if not a lethal notion. This is merely my reasoning, however, without the benefit of scientific education on the subject.

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Thank you CSFCG!
I have struggled to understand the science of global warming ever since I first became aware of it in 1985. Finally in 2007 I decided to read every current popular book on the subject - pro and con - and at last it sunk in. It was Lovelock's breathtaking book, The Revenge of Gaia, that helped me grasp not only the science but the severity of what's happening.
Lovelock - recognised as one of the most important inventors and scientists of the past century - convinced me that the situation is far worse than anyone imagines and that it might be too late to reverse the damage already done, even if we stopped C02 emmissions yesterday. He proposes that the only hope we have to stop a 3 degree C rise in temperature is to convert agricultural waste into biochar and generate algae blooms in the oceans to sequester carbon dioxide (which he convincingly argues is FAR more dangerous to all life on Earth than nuclear waste or even meltdowns).
I love his definition of Gaia Theory:

"A view of the Earth introduced in the 1980s that sees it as a self-regulating system made up from the totality of organisms, the surface rocks, the oceans and the atmosphere tightly coupled as an evolving system. The theory sees this system as having a goal--the regulation of surface conditions so as to always be favorable for contemporary life as possible. It is based on observations and theoretical models; it is fruitful and has made ten successful predictions."

No one could have given better testimony about the value of that book. I'm going to save your comment so that I can get the book. I've been paying attention to the environment for 35 years, without making a scientific study of it. One doesn't have to be a scientist, however, to recognize the imperiled state of our environment. I continue to tell everyone that we can begin offsetting the CO2 content now by planting your giant trees. In fact, barriers of those trees could do a lot to offset dust storms in the west, couldn't they?

I completely adore James Lovelock, especially when he's occasionally wrong (like when he insisted that chloroflurocarbons couldn't possibly threaten stratospheric ozone and invented the machine that discovered the ozone hole over Antarctica in 1980)!

Thanks for sharing the sequoia gospel. Yes they are the ultimate wind block because they are strong and like being planted close together. They thrive in climates that don't go below -15 F or above 110 F all over the world (especially Germany and England). The only thing is they need to be watered often in hot, dry climates until established and don't like to be planted beside streams.

I can't stop wondering why “Stratospheric aerosol increased surprisingly rapidly in that time, almost doubling during the decade."
They don't know WHY!
There is a lot more to this story than they are telling us.

http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/

I don't espouse to everything on this page, but it sure does leave you wondering what sort of geoengineering regarding stratospheric aerosols has been going on based on the rapid increase. Isn't John Holdren who is on Obama's team a proponent of this as well? HMMM, part of the reason we see no action from this government? Again, looting the Arctic as it melts and doing this simply for profit to take advantage of it while its effects hurt real people as it is indeed a false choice. Treachery is then what this is.

Interesting website. Thanks!
I must admit that you have helped change my mind about geoengineering and nuclear energy as short term emergency responces to runaway global warming (although I still like agricultural biochar if done by farmers and not big business).
One thing I question about this website is the claim they are using heavy metals and aluminum to create stratospheric aerosols. Everything I've read by geoengineers proposes inexpensive sulfur dioxide, as is generated by volcanoes.
My prayer is that we simply have more volcanoes until we are able to wean ourselves off of fossil
fuels.