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Global Warming: The latest culprit — clean air!

Posted April 14, 2008

Blogger’s Note: According to the European mainstream, global warming is caused by evil Americans driving SUVs. The sole salvation of the world lies in establishing a barter system of carbon dioxide indulgences… and sorting household trash all the way to Tuesday.

But a recent study is pointing at other culprits: Birkenstock-wearing European greens and environmentalists with burlap shopping bags and stained denim overalls, the right pant leg rolled up to avoid contact with the greased chain of their black Holland bycicle, and yellow buttons saying “Atomkraft — nein danke!” in four languages. Because the lack of air pollution is increasing the warming of Europe…

This article from the German news magazine Der Spiegel should help illustrate the insanity…

By Volker Mrasek

Baltimore — (TFN): Europe is heating up much faster than climate researchers expected, and now they think they know why: air made dramatically cleaner by anti-pollution programs. With less particle pollution clouding the air, more sunlight is coming through and the continent is getting warmer.

The 1970s were a hazy time: Cars ran on sulfur-rich gasoline, power plants and heavy industry burned sulfur-rich coal. Europe lay under a blanket of fumes filled with sulphate particles. Acid rain brought the particles back to earth, ravaging the continent’s forests.

That was then. The situation today is considerably different. Auto emissions are low in sulfur, power plants only run with smoke filters and acid rain is no longer an issue. But the success of efforts to restore Europe’s air quality have had an unintended side effect that is just now coming to light. Because the atmosphere over Europe is increasingly clean, global warming is impacting the continent more quickly than other regions of the world.

The dwindling clouds of pollution are apparently the reason that Europe is heating faster than other mid-latitude regions. Since 1980, the average surface air temperature between the Bosporus and the Bay of Biscay has risen by almost an entire degree Celsius — twice as much as expected. The reasons for this were until recently a matter of heated dispute. Greenhouse gases could explain half that increase, at best. But now climate researchers in Germany, Switzerland and the United States, using data and computer simulations, claim that the rise in temperatures has been caused most directly by a decline in sulfate aerosol…

Reading the entire article will boggle your mind…

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