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Originally Posted by Brucelee
Well, then again, maybe it is NOT the H3 we have to blame.
Wouldn't that just upset all the greenies!
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Hi,
I've seen this report and it is very intriguing, but also very speculative. What isn't in dispute is that the World is unlocking and releasing into the atmosphere Billions of Metric Tons of Carbon annually and this has to have some effect.
Perhaps more interesting was a study done by Harvard scientists in the days after 9/11 in '01. As you recall, Air Traffic was curtailed for 3.5 days after the incident.
Well, it turns out that the 3400 or so airliners which are airborne over this country at any given time create contrails when they reach their cruising altitudes at 30k+ feet. These vapor trails reflect a significant amount of sunlight back into space, the study said 20%.
Anyway, these researchers took average temperatures on each of these days and found the temps rose on average 1.5°F over those same temperature measurements made both before and after the cessation of Air Traffic. The implication is that Global Warming is even more severe than scientists were originally led to believe and that these Airliners and their contrails actually help in mitigating the warming.
Now, I'm no
Greenie, but I do believe that we have severely impacted the Earth's climate by definitely altering the Carbon Cycle. I believe that this is unavoidable - a fact of life in an Industrialized World of 6 Billion people.
Further, I think we'll continue these ways and in a relatively few years push the Earth past the point of no return, where the environment cannot recover. At 52, I doubt that my life will be severely impacted, but my teenage nephews will live in a world very different than the one I am and I don't believe that there will be many more future generations. 'Course, the Indians, Pakistanis, Iranians, and North Koreans are likely to poison all life with Nuclear Radiation before the Environment has a chance to get us all anyway...
Happy Motoring!... Jim'99