Scientist Calls Fox's Global Warming Headline "Patently False"

[Elmore Furth]

The FoxNews lying sacks of sh*t continue unabated.

Fox Nation is claiming a recent study, covered by Reuters, found that "Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduce Global Warming":

In fact, the study said that the "cooling effect" of the "rapid growth in short-lived sulfur emissions," largely due to Chinese coal consumption, "partially offsets rising greenhouse gas concentrations." Responding to the Fox headline, the study's lead author, Robert Kaufmann, wrote via email:

Now come the worst part of publishing an article on a topic of general interest...the distortions. Sulfur emissions ARE NOT GREENHOUSE GASES and the article carefully separates the two. Sulfur emissions are known as radiatively active gases because they reflect incoming solar radiation back to space. But they are not greenhouse gases, which affect Earth's energy balance by absorbing out-going long wave radiation. So the headline is PATENTLY FALSE.

The Associated Press also reported that "sulfur's cooling effect is only temporary, while the carbon dioxide from coal burning stays in Earth's atmosphere a long time." The new study suggests that as China and other developing nations begin to control their sulfur emissions, it will be more difficult for the long-term global warming trend to hide.




Scientist Calls Fox's Global Warming Headline "Patently False"

[Botany]

1. And that SO2 .... sulfur dioxide ..... will come down as

H2SO4 aka acid rain and that will kill plants that fix CO2 there by speeding up global warming

global climate change to some is not a question for science but a chance to see if you are willing
to sell lies to be part of the club.

OSU's institute of polar studies has done some of the best work in the world with ice cores and tracing
the earth's climatic history vs CO2 in the atmosphere and yet republican politicians in Ohio are afraid
to say the global warming is real ...... Fox News just gives cover to these people who are willing to kill
the planet for a dollar.

[Dept of Beer]

2. These crazies are certainly followers of Mammon:

intent on burning it all down while making their coin.

[OKIsItJustMe]

3. There really ought to be a law

Seriously. Something along the lines of, “reckless endangerment of the planet.”

What if they published a story saying, “Drano cures bad breath!”

[stuntcat]

6. +1

Seriously. To me this is the worst, most immoral, type of crime. But that channel's watchers have been voting against their children's future all along.

[Turbineguy]

4. Well, maybe

but he's a scientist so what the fuck does he know. What does Pat Robertson have to say about it?

[defendandprotect]

5. kr