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Cooling Is The Key To Reversing Climate Change
John Gaunt, Longford, Tasmania, Australia. (03) 63911815 10th November 2009
Whilst without doubt Carbon Dioxide emissions are a cause of global warming, there seems to be a total disregard of other factors that are effecting climate change. Some of these other factors can possibly be adjusted far more readily than CO2 emissions. Climate Change is the end result of a number of factors some of which cause an increase in global temperature and a few that cause a decrease. Politicians and scientists alike are generally ignoring global Cooling.
Even worse, several well meant measures to reduce emissions are increasing Global Warming because they carry side effects that reduce Global Cooling. For the past 40 years or so in North America, Europe and other developed parts of the world there have been Environmental Protection Authorities reducing visible emissions. These visible emissions whilst appearing to be nasty were in fact beneficial (in the Global Warming context), causing shading of significant areas of the planet. This shading was an important Global Cooling factor and very much part of the Heating / Cooling balance that has been upset in recent times. Some proposed developments such as clean coal technology might also be expected to significantly reduce Global Cooling.
Working with very large gas firing systems in Australia and overseas, I have carried out experiments and proven that an enormous amount of fuel can be saved, with a reduction in total pollution, by lowering the air to fuel ratio. Unfortunately, then the visible stack emissions are considered to be unacceptably opaque (smoky). Now this really needs rethinking, we are increasing Global Warming for the aesthetic value being placed on visually clean smoke stacks. Perhaps taller but smokier stacks would be a sensible compromise. Whilst I would not advocate increased smoke, for instance, in the climatically sensitive region west of Sydney, it could be feasible in many other locations where adverse effects would be negligible with increased rainfall a possible beneficial side effect. Equating Carbon emissions with CO2 emissions is far from helpful as their effect on Climate Change are quite different.
Having worked in Asian countries for the past 10 years I have noticed that it is often not as hot as one might expect. The sky is generally overcast and visual air pollution acts to shade the earth. Whilst some of the emissions are undesirable (SO2, NOX), that isn’t the case for all emissions. Certainly shading is significant for Global Cooling. If we continue to reduce visual stack emissions in Asia as we have done in Europe and North America then Global Warming will increase substantially regardless of any attempts to control it by reducing CO2 emissions. A lot more thought, considering the bigger picture is needed but perhaps reducing CO2 emissions and increasing Carbon (smoke) emissions would be beneficial.
A pointer to another strategy to reduce Global Warming became evident when all the planes were grounded in U.S.A. following the 9–11 attacks on New York and Washington. A significant rise in temperature was noticed that was reversed as soon as flights were resumed. The temperature rise was attributed to the absence of the condensate trails left by the thousands of jet aircraft that normally cross the sky every day. It is certainly not beyond the “wit of man” to develop a mechanism to deliver a metered dose of catalyst into the jet fuel or exhaust to produce more pronounced and persistent condensate trails at high altitude utilising existing world air traffic.
It is important that Climate Change be fully understood. At present we have gone off half-****ed and the efforts of the last 10 years have largely been wasted. I fear that this might continue.
