Category Archives: Aerosols

Cirrus Cloud seeds identified – will help in climate knowledge

Posted on May 10, 2013 by

From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , a fairly important discovery, one that will help us understand the role clouds play in the Earth’s energy balance. The fact that mineral dust and metallic aerosols are identified would suggest that as … Continue reading →

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A case of the vapors – another global cooling mechanism found

Posted on May 6, 2013 by

From the University of Manchester Organic vapors affect clouds leading to previously unidentified climate cooling University of Manchester scientists, writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, have shown that natural emissions and manmade pollutants can both have an unexpected cooling effect … Continue reading →

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Those dirty trees: why hasn’t the EPA called for trees to be regulated?

Posted on April 25, 2013 by

From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill one wonders why they have not thrown the  PM10 hammer (or ax) at trees to save humans from their terrible effects /sarc. Researchers pinpoint how trees play role in smog production … Continue reading →

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Study: Black carbon aerosol forcing may be an important factor affecting the snow & ice cover in the Northern Hemisphere

Posted on March 7, 2013 by

We’ve had several essays here at WUWT  on the role of Black Carbon soot and its role in affecting surface albedo. Anyone who has ever witnessed “dirty snow” knows that it tends to melt faster than white snow under sunlight … Continue reading →

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Aerosols from Moderate Volcanos Now Blamed for Global Warming Hiatus

Posted on March 2, 2013 by

While looking for quotes on an upcoming post about Ocean Heat Content, I ran across the press release for a new paper (in press) by Neely et al, which blames the recent slowdown in global warming on smaller more moderate … Continue reading →

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Dust’s excellent global adventure ends in California’s Sierra Nevada

Posted on March 1, 2013 by

From the Scripps Institute: Saharan and Asian Dust, Biological Particles End Global Journey in California UCSD, NOAA study is the first to show that dust and other aerosols from one side of the world influence rainfall in another Scripps Institution … Continue reading →

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Harvesting Fog: The No-Regrets Option

Posted on February 21, 2013 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve written before about the “no-regrets” option when one is faced with uncertainty. It relates to one of my favorite rules of thumb. I often live my life by my “rules of thumb”, general guidelines … Continue reading →

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PODEX Experiment to reshape future of Atmospheric Science by getting a handle on aerosols and clouds

Posted on January 16, 2013 by

Polarimeter Definition Experiment (PODEX) in Southern California. The brightness, or “intensity,” and polarization of reflected light provide different information about the elements that make up a scene, apparent in this set of images collected by the Airborne Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager … Continue reading →

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A bit of a bombshell from the AGU IGBR: Black carbon is a larger cause of climate change than previously assessed

Posted on January 15, 2013 by

From the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme via Eurekalert, some of the heat gets taken off CO2 as the ‘big kahuna’ of forcings, now there is another major player, one that we can easily do something about. I’ve often speculated that black … Continue reading →

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Law of unintended consequences – fuel tax designed to lower air pollution actually creates more air pollution

Posted on January 2, 2013 by

Another application of the Grecian government formula blows up in their faces. From EuroNews: Smog hits Athens as cash-strapped residents choose fire over fuel Bad news for austerity-stricken Greeks is also proving to be bad news for the environment – … Continue reading →

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Why doesn’t the AR5 SOD’s climate sensitivity range reflect its new aerosol estimates?

Posted on December 19, 2012 by

This article is a detailed complement to Matt Ridley’s Op-Ed today in the Wall Street Journal: Cooling Down the Fears of Climate Change Evidence points to a further rise of just 1°C by 2100. The net effect on the planet … Continue reading →

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Another hole in the climate models – no lamp black forcing

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

Interesting point, but I wonder how such a change would come about when people often can’t afford an alternative? Let there be clean light: Kerosene lamps spew black carbon, should be replaced, study says By Sarah Yang, Media Relations BERKELEY … Continue reading →

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Some new climate surprises blow in with the dust

Posted on November 1, 2012 by

From NASA: Dust’s Warming Counters Half of its Cooling Effect Dust that routinely rises above the world’s deserts causes a more significant localized warming effect than previously thought, a new study based on NASA field research shows. In April 2008, … Continue reading →

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Sunshade geoengineering people apparently have been in the midday sun too long

Posted on October 21, 2012 by

From the Carnegie Institution , not just aerosol injections, but effective aersol injections. Law of unintended consequences be damned. Improving effectiveness of solar geoengineering Washington, D.C.— Solar radiation management is a type of geoengineering that would manipulate the climate in … Continue reading →

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New paper cuts recent anthropogenic warming trend in half

Posted on October 17, 2012 by

Tamino (aka Grant Foster) will have his knickers in a twist over this one. Guest post by Marcel Crok (from his blog De staat van het klimaat) An interesting new paper (behind paywall) has been accepted for publication in the Journal … Continue reading →

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Yet another fix needed for climate models – this time due to aerosols

Posted on October 5, 2012 by

There are so many updates and fixes needed to the climate models these days its almost like watching a car undergoing a perpetual repair process. When does the time come when the owners realize that maybe they should take advantage … Continue reading →

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Another failure of climate models – carbon soot warming actually far less than models predict

Posted on September 3, 2012 by

From Boston College another failure of climate models to capture reality has been exposed by field empiricism. The map below from NASA’s Earth Observatory will likely have to be revised now that absorption has been demonstrated to be far less. … Continue reading →

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SLACing the soot

Posted on June 28, 2012 by

From the DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory X-ray vision exposes aerosol structures Laser probes microscopic components of air pollution Menlo Park, Calif. — Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have captured the most detailed images … Continue reading →

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The EPA’s Unethical PM2.5 Air Pollution Experiments

Posted on June 4, 2012 by

By John Dale Dunn MD JD (via email) United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson testified before Congress in September of 2011 that small-particle (2.5 microns or less) air pollution is lethal. “Particulate matter causes premature death. It’s … Continue reading →

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Shocker: The Hansen/GISS team paper that says: “we argue that rapid warming in recent decades has been driven mainly by non-CO2 greenhouse gases”

Posted on June 3, 2012 by

Note: This will be a top post for a day or two, new stories will appear below this one – please scroll down. ============================================================ No, this isn’t a joke, it isn’t a fake document, and it isn’t a misinterpretation. It … Continue reading →

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