Air Pollution, Not Greenhouse Gases: The Principal Cause of Global Warming | Chapter 09 | Current Perspectives to Environment and Climate Change Vol. 1
Aim:
Gottschalk demonstrated the bump coincident with World War II is a robust
feature showing up in eight independent NOAA temperature databases. Without
contradicting Gottschalk's conclusion, I consider the broader activities of
WW2, especially the manner of altering Earth's delicate energy balance by
particulate aerosols and then generalise to post-WW2 global warming. The aim is
to present evidence that particulate pollution, not greenhouse gases, is the
principal cause of global warming.
Methods:
Arrange seemingly unrelated observations into a logical sequence in the mind so
that causal relationships become evident.
Results:
The World War II wartime particulate-pollution, I submit, had the same
global-warming consequence as the subsequent ever-increasing global aerosol
particulate-pollution from (1) increases in aircraft and vehicular traffic, and
the industrialization of China and India with their smokestacks spewing out
smoke and coal fly ash and from (2) coal fly ash covertly jet-sprayed into the
region where clouds form on a near-daily, near-global basis. Spraying coal fly
ash into the atmosphere not only causes global warming by altering Earth’s
delicate thermal balance, but it is a major risk factor for chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease, lung cancer, and neurodegenerative disease, as well as being
involved in the global catastrophic bee and insect die-off and in forest
die-offs worldwide, poisoning the biosphere with mercury, and destroying
atmospheric ozone that protects us from the sun’s deadly ultraviolet radiation.
The continued deliberate pollution of our atmosphere with aerosolised coal fly
ash will inevitably cripple our ability to produce food crops and will cause
untold death and destruction, for example, by altering Monsoon weather patterns
and by exacerbating wildfires.
Conclusion:
The main cause of global warming is particulate pollution, not greenhouse
gases. Unless atmospheric modification utilising aerosolised coal fly ash is
halted, we drive ever-forward toward the first anthropogenic mass extinction of
life on Earth.
Author(s) Details
J. Marvin Herndon
Transdyne Corporation, 11044
Red Rock Drive, San Diego, CA 92131, USA.
Comments
Post a Comment