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Thread #163494   Message #3901784
Posted By: Iains
25-Jan-18 - 05:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: Smog & Global Warming
Subject: RE: BS: Smog & Global Warming
Senoufou. A couple of links.(probably regarded as antique now) A complex field that I have little formal knowledge of. In your own speciality you can read papers and have a gut feeling for the veracity of the content. Reading papers without formal knowledge of the subject, or relying on facets of a subject covered by wikipedia can lead to dangerous erroneous conclusions. The problem with climate change is that there are extremists, viewpoints dictated by funding and politics, and plentiful genuine research. Somewhere in the resultant morass of papers and position statements lies the truth.


https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00087.1

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/NAO/

the one aspect of climate change that worries me is that a body of research suggests that climate tipping points can trigger rapid change. For example a pulse of warmer water reaching the Arctic and destabilising seafloor methane hydrates. The resultant belch of methane would further exacerbate a very dodgy situation.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170623100414.htm