Cleaner air leads to increased warming?

[clusteringflux]

Ok, can someone tell me what this article is trying to a imply, if it's what it claims is possible and if you think the Climate Change hype has reached a new level of stupid?

Thanks.


http://environment.newscientist.com/...ine-news_rss20

[Spud Emperor]

hype has reached a new level of stupid?

That would be stupidity.
It's an adjective.

p.s the piece is either tongue in cheek or unworthy of comment.

[clusteringflux]

That would be stupidity.

You are the expert.

Spud, you're in quite a mood today. I like it!

[Spud Emperor]

You are the expert.

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Well spotted!

[iceaura]

Ok, can someone tell me what this article is trying to a imply, if it's what it claims is possible

It's old news, just some new evidence and a different mechanism dominant than had been thought most likely.

The first real check of that longstanding possibility came in the wake of 9/11, when the jet contrails vanished from North American skies for several days. The results, in trapped irradiance energy in the lower atmosphere, were significant enough to create a small stir - it's a genuine worry, now, what will happen to temps if the soot and aerosols and so forth are reduced significantly, as is planned and hoped, while the slower-responding CO2 concentration remains high.