{"id":335052,"date":"2024-06-28T09:35:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T07:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335052"},"modified":"2024-06-28T09:35:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T07:35:59","slug":"global-excuses-ship-pollution-was-saving-us-from-global-warming-but-now-weve-fixed-the-ships-were-all-going-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335052","title":{"rendered":"Global Excuses: Ship pollution was saving us from global warming, but now we\u2019ve fixed the ships, we\u2019re all going to die"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From JoNova <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The evil shipping smoke was shielding us from global warming\u2026<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ll never guess but it\u2019s worse than we thought, and we are more to blame than we thought, kiss my government grant and pray to Gaia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wouldn\u2019t you know \u2014 shipping smoke was polluting the world, but the smoke also seeded clouds, which cooled the Earth, and undid some of the global warming we caused with CO2. Now that we are finally fixing up the dirty ships, oh no, we\u2019ve accidentally unleashed the global warming which the ship smoke was hiding. So there is about to be another wave of global bad news. And for some reason we didn\u2019t see it coming, even though we\u2019ve known for decades that sulfate aerosols caused cooling (and we had those expert climate models all along, didn\u2019t we?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember all those other times they said disaster would strike, and it didn\u2019t, well, they were right. It would have happened, we just couldn\u2019t see it because of the shipping pollution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See how perfect this is for The Climate Industrial Complex?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve been accidentally cooling the planet \u2014 and it\u2019s about to stop<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By Shannon Osaka, Washington Post<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiny particles from the combustion of coal, oil and gas can reflect sunlight and spur the formation of clouds<\/a>, shading the planet from the sun\u2019s rays. Since the 1980s, those particles have offset between 40 and 80 percent<\/a> of the warming caused by greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re starting from an area of deep, deep uncertainty,\u201d said Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist and research lead for the payments company Stripe. \u201cIt could be a full degree of cooling being masked.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These moves have saved lives \u2014 according to estimates, around 200,000 prematuredeaths have already been avoided in China, and the new shipping regulations could save around 50,000 lives per year. But they have also boostedglobal temperatures. Scientists estimate that the changes in aerosols from the new shipping rule alone could contribute between 0.05 and 0.2 degrees Celsius of warming over the next few decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some researchershave suggested that the changes to ocean shipping regulations may have been a big contributor to last year\u2019s record heat<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of which begs the question, if shipping-smoke solves global warming, shouldn\u2019t we just go with it then?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I mean, let the ships rip, and skip the whole hair-shirt sacrifice \u2014 we could fly in planes, eat meat, and keep the air con on? But \u2018no\u2019 say the puritans, the new shipping regulations might save 50,000 people a year. (And heck, it\u2019s not like we face the sixth mass extinction, boiling oceans, or something truly awful is it? ) So onward we go, renewables to the rescue, living the life of the perfect climate apostles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that the Ecoworriers won\u2019t even consider this to save the world tells us exactly how afraid they are (not) of the man-made climate catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the other problem is \u201cthe numbers\u201d \u2014 despite climate experts being 99% certain of what controls our climate, scientists estimate the changes in aerosols could have anything from 0.05\u00b0C to \u201ca full degree\u201d (so sayth Zeke Hausfather). So aerosols might explain a lot, or nothing at all, but it\u2019s another excuse to parade a climate scientist on the news, and they can pick whatever flavour of \u201caerosol\u201d cooling fits the theme of the day. Would you like to hide past model failures or scare the horses? Adjust to fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch the evil shipping smoke fighting off the Global Warming Monster<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We are reminded yet again of the primitive belief that humans are really Gods that control the climate\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n

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Some version of the shipping story keeps doing the rounds every few months for at least the last year,<\/a> because it has a strong Climate Bingo score:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. It\u2019s worse than we thought. The new bad effect is almost upon us (yet again!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. It\u2019s the perfect excuse to cover the warming that didn\u2019t happen, wasn\u2019t predicted, may not come, or might suddenly appear.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. It\u2019s advertising for \u201cGeoengineering Projects\u201d where people throw salt, dust, or particulates in the sky and try to cool the Earth. (See<\/em>, they say,\u00a0Geoengineering works, give us your money<\/em>!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. It fits the religion \u2014 mankind controls the climate (not God or the Sun). This feeds a whole new wing of bureaucracy, and briefly distracts people from asking whether recent warming has anything to do with solar activity or space weather.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Ultimately it bestows more power on the high priesthood of lab-coats and climate models \u2014 as long as the weather is controlled by man-made things of some sort, the IPCC anointed masters sit at the centre of this Global Warming Control Tower and issue the orders and collect the funds.\u00a0 They shall have their two-week UN junkets, their Nobel Pizzas, and their moment of fame in the nightly news.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    But lift the hood, and this engine is a mass of contradictions. They didn\u2019t see this \u201cshipping\u201d warming coming, and can\u2019t agree on how much warming it does, but they want us to believe their models are accurate. And they don\u2019t think the climate emergency is important enough to let ships keep shipping as they were, just to buy us some time. There are no hard trade-offs in these life and death decisions, only 50 shades of advertising for the renewables industry and the UN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    You\u2019ll never guess but it\u2019s worse than we thought, and we are more to blame than we thought, kiss my government grant and pray to Gaia.<\/p>\n

    Wouldn\u2019t you know \u2014 shipping smoke was polluting the world, but the smoke also seeded clouds, which cooled the Earth, and undid some of the global warming we caused with CO2. Now that we are finally fixing up the dirty ships, oh no, we\u2019ve accidentally unleashed the global warming which the ship smoke was hiding. 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