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What about the 50 year old models that predicted a looming global cooling? Why were they wrong?
by yters 7y ago
What about the 50 year old models that predicted a looming global cooling? Why were they wrong?
- tzs 7y agoThose predictions were based upon projections that we would not address the growing levels of smog and other particulates, and the cooling effect from those would be larger than the warming effect from greenhouse gases. We did address smog. Without growing smog, those models predicted warming.
- yters 7y agoWould increasing particulates be an effective way to stop global warming?
- hatmatrix 7y agoThat's one proposal for geoengineering (either sulfate particles in the stratosphere, or marine particles over the oceans). More for a "pause" or slow down rather than a solution to stop it.
- pragmar 7y agoDefinitely, there was an "albedo yachts" solution that was floated a while back. Basically kicking up mist from the oceans. It's all just theory, and the repercussions are probably not well understood, but the idea is out there and implementation would be relatively inexpensive.
- chrisbrandow 7y agoThere weren’t any.