The new
findings on aerosols don't change a simple fact: There's overwhelming consensus among scientists and policy experts that humanity is not doing enough to address climate change.
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By analyzing satellite data and other measures, Daniel and his colleagues
found that such
aerosols have been
on the rise in Earth's atmosphere in the past decade, nearly doubling in concentration.
This
finding has implications for the role of sea spray
aerosols in climate, especially
on how they interact with solar radiation,» says Paul Zieger, assistant professor at ACES and co-author of the study.
To test their effect
on aerosol nucleation, Kirkby's team fired beams similar to cosmic rays through the chamber and
found it increased nucleation between 2 and 10 times.
On Buddhist religious holidays, he
found that the ritual burning of incense, tree limbs, herbs and huge piles of leaves emitted about 80 percent of the city's
aerosol pollution, including a large amount of carcinogens.
Which molecules are
found in the atmosphere
on aerosols will determine whether they absorb or reflect sunlight, affecting the temperature of the planet.
A site near Tomsk, Russia,
found that,
on average, about half of the stratospheric
aerosols resided below 15 kilometers, the researchers will report in a forthcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters.
What is missing is the more quantitative information
on aerosol radiative properties, geographical distributions, trends, and observational results (including uncertainties) that can be
found in the IPCC AR4 Report.
A multidisciplinary team led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Dr. Chuck Long
found that, at least in the continental United States, changes in clouds and cloudiness have a greater influence
on brightening than any decrease in
aerosol amounts alone.
From the Physical Science Basis: «Shindell et al. (2009) estimated the impact of reactive species emissions
on both gaseous and
aerosol forcing species and
found that ozone precursors, including methane, had an additional substantial climate effect because they increased or decreased the rate of oxidation of SO2 to sulphate
aerosol.
They
found that galactic cosmic rays exert only a small influence
on the formation of sulphuric acid — dimethylamine clusters (the embryonic stage before
aerosols may act as cloud condensation nuclei).
What you
find is that early century trends had combinations from multiple factors, and given the uncertainties — particular in the
aerosol and solar terms — it's hard to put specific %
on the natural / anthropogenic combination.
Among those choices as well as the rest including reducing fossil fuel combustion, deforestation, etc., one would want to
find the cheapest / easiest, but also the most effective (the firmest grasp
on that knob) and the safest / least negative side - effects - such as those you'd get from non - spatially / temporally - discrimating solar shades / cooling
aerosols (precipitation changes, and?
It is difficult to
find exact results of the most comprehensive investigation
on aerosols, the INDOEX, over SE Asia
on the open internet, but there is one interesting investigation done in the Indian Ocean, where a highly
aerosol contaminated area in the NH was compared to a far less contaminated one in the SH.
I tried to
find references for you
on regional
aerosol effects, and my hat tip is: google the INDOEX project.
V @ 221 — I am fairly sure you could
find a website that would welcome detailed discussions
on the finer points of grammatical style if you looked — if there are lots of
aerosol producing eruptions there are lots of
aerosols.
8 - 58): either (i) the IPCC calculation doesn't include the indirect effects of methane
on the oxidation of SO2 to sulfur
aerosols or (ii) the effects are included, but subsequent research
found a smaller effect.
In summary the
findings to date indicate that the effect of cosmic rays
on cloud formation is small compared to the large variations in natural biogenic
aerosol emissions.
Coupling these new measurements with detailed cloud simulations that resolve the size distributions of
aerosols and cloud particles, we
found several lines of evidence indicating that most anvil crystals form
on mid-tropospheric rather than boundary - layer
aerosols.
For the first time, researchers have developed a comprehensive approach to look at
aerosols — those fine particles
found in pollution — and their effect
on clouds and climate.
While I can't speak as an expert, I did do a little more digging, this time into the IPCC AR4 WG1 and
found a lot of information
on aerosol modelling and the newest developments.
I may have to re-read the Wild paper and again look exactly for what I failed to
find the first time: local temperature observations
on the surface matching the expected effects of the
aerosol radiative forcings the paper does talk a lot about.
The authors
find that the results from each of these analyses are consistent, showing that the effects of changes in greenhouse gases,
aerosols and other anthropogenic forcings
on the climate of the Arctic region can be detected.
46 Based
on surface
aerosol measurements at one site, Kulmala et al. (2010)
found no connection between GCR 47 and new particle formation or any other
aerosol property over a solar cycle (1996 — 2008).
Kimberly Prather and colleagues from the Center for
Aerosol Impacts
on Climate and the Environment (CAICE) carried out the study, in an effort to understand the earlier inconsistent
findings.
I may be missing something but, looking at these data, I once again
find myself unable to believe that the much more scattered industrial
aerosols may have had as strong an effect
on the global temperatures as the IPCC claims.
In response to the
finding that anthropogenic
aerosols create a significant perturbation in the earth's radiative balance
on regional scales, ESRL / GMD expanded its
aerosol research program (1992) to include
aerosol monitoring stations in regions where significant
aerosol forcing was expected.
«We
found that
aerosol indirect effect
on deep convective cloud systems could lead to enhanced regional convergence and a strong top - of - atmosphere warming.»
Given the new
found importance of
aerosols on atmospheric warming the problem has become even more pressing.»
Find a study that shows a regional influence of industrial
aerosols on temperature.
Incorporating new
findings on the radiative forcing of black carbon (BC)
aerosols, the magnitude of the climate sensitivity, and the strength of the climate / carbon cycle feedbacks into a simple upwelling diffusion / energy balance model similar to the one that was used in the TAR, we
find that the range of projected warming for the 1990 - 2100 period is reduced to 1.1 - 2.8 °C.
Based
on surface
aerosol measurements at one site, Kulmala et al. (2010)
found no connection between GCRand new particle formation or any other
aerosol property over a solar cycle (1996 — 2008).
Overall, we
find that anthropogenic greenhouse gases and sulphate
aerosols have had a detectable influence
on sea - level pressure over the second half of the twentieth century: this represents evidence of human influence
on climate independent of measurements of temperature change.»
I'm suprised you could
find something
on anthropogenic tropospheric
aerosols correlation with indistrial output so easily.
If the major emitters of greenhouse gases
find it hard to agree
on setting caps
on emissions now, what makes you think the world can agree to injecting
aerosols in the stratosphere as a solution?
I
found one study
on impact of high regional
aerosol loadings in central China.