Reply #2: Chinese soot responsible for 1/3rd of global warming! [View All]

[leebert]

Easily a third of all global warming could be attributed to Chinese soot.

Overturning the conventional wisdom that airborne soot emissions only cause regional cooling it has been found that brown clouds of airborne soot can contribute to 50 percent of atmospheric heating that had been previously blamed on CO2 emissions. Because of the worldwide scope of airborne soot - such as the vast Asian Brown Cloud that originates largely from China - atmospheric models that ascribe certain regional warming trends only to CO2 may need revisiting.

These vast shrouds of soot are predominantly from coal-fired industrial sources in Asia, creating the notorious Asian Brown Cloud. Most of the soot falling on the Arctic comes from China, 90 percent of the Arctic melt is due to dirty snow melting faster than it can be created. Climate models show that 25 percent of *ALL* global warming is from the Arctic & tundra ice loss.

About 30 percent of the warming on the American West coast is due to Chinese soot. 40 percent of the warming in the vast Pacific is due to Chinese soot - that’s 30 percent of the Earth’s surface area, causing up to 12 percent of all global warming - just from them alone. The American Sierra’s are melting sooner due to dirty snow, same goes for the glacial recessions in the Northern Rockies.

We’re off-shoring production to China, shifting jobs, etc. overseas. In countries committed to Kyoto’s carbon trading scheme, Kyoto’s serving to back-door emissions with the shifted production, which then accelerates globalization by encouraging the additional shifting of production (and jobs) to Asia along with the emissions.

see:
http://leebert.newsvine.com
http://www.scientificblogging.com/the_soot_files

The lead researcher in this study, Prof. V. Ramanathan of the Scripps Institute commented, "The conventional thinking is that brown clouds have masked as much as 50 percent of the global warming .. through ... global dimming ... This study reveals that ... soot particles ... are intensifying the atmospheric warming ... by as much as 50 percent."