OH (The Atmospheric Detergent)--or--You Can't Talk To A Man With A Shotgun In His Han

[MichaelLWagner]

Here Read:



+ Primary Cause of Global Warming Discovered

http://www.tetontectonics.org/Climat...1Web.pdfovered /

"Too much sulfur dioxide ... causes warming."


...What happens is that Sulfur Dioxide affects the oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere.

There's a natural element which cleans the atmosphere of GreenHouses Gases (OH)--however it's in short supply.

Sulfur Dioxide reacts most swiftly with OH: "Too much sulfur dioxide uses them all up, causing methane and other pollutants to accumulate."



+ Interactions with Aerosols Boost Warming Potential of Some Gases / NASA:

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20091029/

"When vehicles, factories, landfills, and livestock emit methane and carbon monoxide into the atmosphere ..."

"The release of these gases also have indirect effects ... including reducing the production of particles called aerosols that can influence both the climate and the air quality."

"These two gases, as well as others, are part of a complicated cascade of chemical reactions that features competition with aerosols for highly reactive molecules that cleanse the air of pollutants."

"... coal power production and other industrial processes release sulfur dioxide — the same gas that billows from volcanoes — that later reacts with atmospheric molecules called hydroxyl radicals to produce sulfates as a byproduct."

"Hydroxyl is so reactive scientists consider it an atmospheric 'detergent' ..."

"'Our calculations suggest that all the non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gases together have a net impact that rivals the warming caused by carbon dioxide.'"

"'Since we already know how to capture methane from animals, landfills, and sewage treatment plants at fairly low cost, targeting methane makes sense,'..."



OH is produced by a reaction of sunlight with Ozone...



+ Uranium Plants Harm Ozone Layer / Mindfully.org:

http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/Uraniu...zone-Layer.htm

"The uranium enrichment plant in Paducah, Ky., and its sister facility in Ohio have been by far the country's largest industrial emitters of a chemical that eats the Earth's protective ozone layer."



+ Clean Air Reports / Environment Illinois:

http://www.environmentillinois.org/r...lant-emissions

"From 1995 to 2000, over which time the national SO2 cap took effect, 300 of the dirtiest 500 power plants increased their SO2 emissions ..."

"One plant, the EC Gaston plant in Alabama, increased its SO2 emissions by 62,000 tons per year ..."



+ China's anti-pollution efforts stink / Asian Times:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_B.../HH16Cb01.html

"So what might look great on paper will in the end probably produce no real gain."

[MichaelLWagner]

It's come to my attention that:

1./ The First Link is broken (new link: http://www.tetontectonics.org/Climate.html ) ,

2./ The NASA Article is contrived (bogus).



Dr. Shindell (NASA) says:

"Reducing sulfate unmasks methane's warming by 20 to 40 percent over current estimates..."


Yet Dr. Ward explains:

"Global temperatures increased more rapidly after 1950 as the rate of anthropengic sulfur emissions increased."



Shindell claims that Sulfur Dioxide is good because it temporarily blocks sunlight.



Yet Ward explains how:


"All major historic volcanic eruptions have formed sulfuric acid aerosols in the lower stratosphere that cooled the earth's surface ...", however, "Large volumes of Sulfur Dioxide ... overdrive the oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere resulting in very rapid warming."


"Massive reduction of SO2 should be a top priority in order to reduce both global warming and acid rain."