It gets worse...?

[Oxygon]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4171591.stm

"Global Dimming"

"But perhaps the most alarming aspect of global dimming is that it may have led scientists to underestimate the true power of the greenhouse effect."

"But it now appears the warming from greenhouse gases has been offset by a strong cooling effect from dimming - in effect two of our pollutants have been cancelling each other out."

"We're going to be in a situation unless we act where the cooling pollutant is dropping off while the warming pollutant is going up"

"That means we'll get reducing cooling and increased heating at the same time"

"That means a temperature rise of 10 degrees Celsius by 2100 could be on the cards, giving the UK a climate like that of North Africa, and rendering many parts of the world uninhabitable"

"That is unless we act urgently to curb our emissions of greenhouse gases"


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The more we know, the more we know how much we didn't know...

[Jonathan]

Well now I'm just thoughly confused:
http://www.besslerwheel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=610
Which is it?
EDIT PS I just checked to see if that one I posted had taken their measurements from space (I can't remember, I thought they used ice cores), but the link that I started that thread about no longer takes you there.

[Oxygon]

guess its a matter of opinion...

everybody seems to have an opinion...

the duality of the whole thing sounds plausible...

I guess it depends on what evidence you use to validate your research...

One will lead you to believe this and this to the other conclusion...

[jim_mich]

I sometimes wonder if the earth is alive and able to heal itself like other living oranisms? I've seen many things in nature that leads me in that direction of thinking.

http://www.webcom.com/gaia/living_earth.html

[Oxygon]

Could be...

humans have only been thinkers for a while now...

And were pretty arrogant...

[epistemologicide]

great read jim

[jim_mich]

What is the hypothesis of Gaia ? Stated simply, the idea is that we may have discovered a living being bigger, more ancient, and more complex than anything from our wildest dreams. That being, called Gaia, is the Earth.

More precisely: that about one billion years after it's formation, our planet was occupied by a meta-life form which began an ongoing process of transforming this planet into its own substance. All the life forms of the planet are part of Gaia. In a way analogous to the myriad different cell colonies which make up our organs and bodies, the life forms of earth in their diversity coevolve and contribute interactively to produce and sustain the optimal conditions for the growth and prosperity not of themselves, but of the larger whole, Gaia. That the very makeup of the atmosphere, seas, and terrestrial crust is the result of radical interventions carried out by Gaia through the evolving diversity of living creatures.

http://erg.ucd.ie/arupa/references/gaia.html