Hi, with aviation at a near standstill, vastly reduced road traffic, retail businesses & whole industries in hibernation - CO2 production has dropped amazingly. The Chinese contribution to CO2 and particulate air pollution has similarly dropped and may stay that way for years. Debts owed to China will likely go unpaid, export products go un-purchased and more foreign manufacturing enterprises based in China pulled out etc. Foreign investments by Chinese corporations will be halted and maybe Chinese military expansion too. It's an ill wind .... BTW: If some Chinese workers say that are staving, then let them eat bats..... .... Phil ;-)

Yeah it snowed here late last night about two inches worth, very unusual for late April in New England. Power cut out briefly, came back on for a minute, then there was the brightest turquoise transformer-fail flash I ever seen lit up the sky somewhere out west of here, and a distant buzz and "Ka-chunk!" noise. Power went down again for a few minutes. Then back up again and seemed fine after that. Not much snow fell this winter otherwise unusually warm and light winter season. maybe they got complacent on the winter maintenance.

Not necessarily: Much fewer or no contrails? Has the planet cooled by any measurable amount? Not evident so far, but with a lot more data the question of contrails possibly being an effect may be answered finally. John

.. I wonder if even with no contrail the increase humidity cause by the planes has a great influence. -- Uwe Bonnes Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt --------- Tel. 06151 1623569 ------- Fax. 06151 1623305 ---------

Anyone feel the Planet Cooling?

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dagmargoodboat 6 years ago

But Phil, it's quite simple don't you see? The more paper we pretend to have printed, the more food and products everyone will have, and the less we'll all have to work producing them.

This ain't rocket surgery.

Grins, James

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Rob 6 years ago

Global warming is not caused by actual CO2 emission, it is caused by accumulated CO2 emitted over the time we burned large amounts of fossil fuels.

Reduction in current emissions will not stop global warming, it will only stop it going faster all the time.

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Phil Allison 6 years ago

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** So you missed the smiley after my name ?

The heading was an obvious joke.

Well, obvious to normal people at least.

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John Robertson 6 years ago

Not necessarily:

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Much fewer or no contrails? Has the planet cooled by any measurable amount?

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Not evident so far, but with a lot more data the question of contrails possibly being an effect may be answered finally.

John

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bitrex 6 years ago

There are enough contrails in regular times to cause a measurable amount of cooling as well; they spread out and reflect sunlight. The increase in the difference between night and day temperatures averaged over the CONUS for the period all air traffic was grounded after 9/11 was 2 degrees F, the largest short-term variational spike in 30 years.

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Ricky C 6 years ago

What was the cause of the spike 30 years earlier?

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Jasen Betts 6 years ago

Mt St Helens perhaps?

Jasen.

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Uwe Bonnes 6 years ago

I wonder if even with no contrail the increase humidity cause by the planes has a great influence.

Uwe Bonnes bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt --------- Tel. 06151 1623569 ------- Fax. 06151 1623305 ---------

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