#terminationshock — Public Fediverse posts
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How Clean Air Warms the Earth
Today, we’re exploring a microscopic landscape completely invisible to the naked eye—a world of 'ghost' particles that control both our climate and our own biology.
#aerosol #TerminationShock #atmosphere #physics #thermodynamics #PublicHealth #ShippingEmissions #sulfur #FaustianBargain #WhiteDragon #白龍 #EarthCARE #podcasts #YouTube #GlobalWarming
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Neal Stephenson's "Termination Shock" started out really good but it's really bogging down. If it doesn't pick up soon this may be a did-not-finish.
I'm listening to it on audiobook.
#nealStephenson #books #amReading #audiobooks #terminationShock #nearFuture #climateFiction #climateCrisis #climate
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Due to acid rain, countries lowered SO2 emissions from industry and power plants. But SO2 is also a coolant via cloud-seeding aerosols. See Glen Peters' tweet: globally -0.5°C from 2010-2019. A very short lifetime of mere days means, SO2 molecules cool only locally, while methane and CO2 heat all.
SO2 is emitted by burning coal and ship fuel, & in #volcanism.
The other major coolant NOx, also short-lived with regional not global direct forcing, is emitted by burning fossil fuels eg in cars, and lightening storms & biomass burning.
So when our emissions drop, local heating goes up: " #TerminationShock".When I say "local heating goes up", I should add that via wind and land-atmosphere and ocean-atmosphere interaction, this local heating also has global repercussions. Eg., wind drives the warm-er air parcel across the globe. So a warmer China and Japan who ditched SO2 and NOx, also heat the #Pacific.
Lowering SO2 and NOx while N2O (fertilizer), CH4 and CO2 emissions still rise is rather stupid.
#climate #climateChange #methane #SO2 #NOx #atmosphere #ocean -
In 2021 the #ClubOfRome, #Netherlands branch asserted that #pollution from shipping has a #globalCooling effect. Ie. toxic #sulphur emissions have blocked out #sun and cooled.
They credit less polluting #shipping regulatons + #covid reductons with "#AerosolTerminationShock" that *boost* #globalWarming.
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/Documents/Simons.2021.RiskOfATerminationShockAerosolConference.pdf
Some spin this to justify #pollution…
Stop! Prison.
#sulphurEmissions #poisons #terminationShock #imprisonList #degrowth