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Headline is kind of misleading -- it will offset climate change's effects _on snow_ because it's more reflective. It won't effect climate change in general.
by empath-nirvana 3y ago
Headline is kind of misleading -- it will offset climate change's effects _on snow_ because it's more reflective. It won't effect climate change in general.
- CamouflagedKiwi 3y agoPresumably it will if the snow reflects more light and melts less as a result - that will increase the planet's albedo and hence slow the effect of climate change relative to what it would have been with previous rates of soot deposition.
- titzer 3y agoRight, like when you hit a bug with your car, which slows the car down ever so slightly. /s
- empath-nirvana 3y agoOnly a small amount -- the very large ice sheets are already not very polluted.
- andrewmutz 3y agoDoesnt increasing earths albedo actually cause heat to be reflected from the earth (and lower temperatures)?
- empath-nirvana 3y agoYes, but the effect is dwarfed by greenhouse gas emissions. The effect of this is mostly going to be local. The big reflectors are greenland, the arctic and antarctic and those already have a very high albedo.