Comments fulldroolcup has made

Well, the Chinese and Indians...

...will be happy to hear that they are doing their part in fighting global warming by burning increasingly large amounts of sulfate-laden coal, without the environmental
controls adopted in the West.

They can say "Hey, shall we leave the sulfates in, and cool the planet, or take them out, and cook it"?  

IOW they will go all virtuous on us and say that their sulfates are counter-acting global warming, and you will be faced with a brand-new argument, which is that whatever their other deleterious affects, sulfate emissions have a "good" side --- as does CO2 (essential to plant life and all that).

And errr...ummmm....you aren't using that bogus hockey stick as a reference are you?

Finally, please read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfate

"The indirect effects probably have a cooling effect, perhaps up to 2 W/m2, *although the uncertainty is very large.*

Sulfates are therefore implicated in global dimming, which may have acted to offset some of the effects of global warming."

Can you please explain how that very large uncertainty gets fitted so nicely on that graph?On 'What about mid-century cooling?'--No one said CO2 is the only climate influence posted 2 years, 3 months ago 11 Responses