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Thread #79077   Message #1887415
Posted By: JohnInKansas
18-Nov-06 - 02:12 AM
Thread Name: BS: What scientists think about
Subject: RE: BS: What scientists think about
I've seen only "news media" reports on the injected pollutants theory, but the limited babbling there indicates that the media have their usual cluelessness in high gear.

In greatly oversimplified terms, global warming is presumed to be caused by release of polutants that absorb infrared radiation and thus trap heat in the atmosphere causing it to accumulate and increase the earth temperature.

The separate effect of depletion of the ozone layer removes the ozone that's the main absorber of ultraviolet radiation, leaving us with no protection at the surface from this separate harmful solar radiation.

It's not clear which of these two vastly different effects this proposed addition of new pollutants is intended to correct, or even that those proposing it clearly understand which problem their modelling programs are intended to study.

"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."(?)

Anybody got a decent summary of the proposition from one of the clever ones?

John