Faux : Cleaner air is bad news

[brettdale]

Either way, global warming researchers insist that cleaner air is bad news. They say that additional sunlight reaching the ground will warm the earth's surface and destabilize the climate, adding to the problems of global warming.

[XemaSab]

1. Link?

These people are high.... cleaner air allows heat to escape, so that insolation that reaches the ground's surface and becomes heat isn't trapped in the "greenhouse."

It's like taking your jacket off.

[brettdale]

3. here is the link the story is about halfway down

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155992,00.html

[CatholicEdHead]

7. Where did they get this from

"One scientist speculated that China may be using previously unknown clean-air technology."

What "previously unknown" technology are they talking about?

[XemaSab]

14. From what I've heard

China has the nastiest air ever in the whole history of nasty air.

[suziedemocrat]

5. Link from NPR. Sounds crazy - but that's the news story.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4636777

Christopher Joyce reports a recent scientific study that shows the Earth is getting brighter, meaning more of the sun's rays are getting through the atmosphere and warming the planet's surface. While researchers believe that the brightness is a sign of diminishing pollution, the change also reveals the extent of the planet's global warming problems.

Also - http://www.top-tech-news.com/news/story.xhtml?story_id=02000223OQ0S

Scientists Say Global Brightening Could Lead to Warming Trend

[RoyGBiv]

2. What!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?

They didn't. Please tell me they didn't. I can at least partly understand the head-in-the-sand people because denial is typical of things like this. But actually suggesting that cleaner air is BAD!?!?!?!?!?

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:banghead: :wtf: :banghead:

[Wickerman]

4. Makes sense

if you breathe dirty air all your life and then get subjected to clean air you are going to start hacking up all kinds of crap in absence of the crappy air and that would be really unpleasant.

I think I am starting to get the hang of wRong Wing logic.

[CatholicEdHead]

6. Ouch

still playing the opposite game. Now dirty air is better for you than clean air.

[Deja Q]

8. ROFL. Is our atmosphere THAT dirty already?! And yet we don't have what

did kill off the dinosaurs - dirty atmosphere blocking out the sun so nothing could grow or live.

:crazy:

[Gman]

9. The White House probably planted this story

and, of course, Faux was more than happy to run with it. Sounds like something from a supermarket tabloid, along with Elvis running for president in '08.

[KamaAina]

10. Next they'll be telling us trees cause air pollution

Huh? They already did? No! C'mon! You can't be serious...

[Honest_Abe]

11. More "Fecal matter"...

in our drinking water is a good thing, because fecal matter is nutritious for living organisms.

I actually heard Rush give that argument the last time I tried to stomach listening to him for five minutes.

[MrMonk]

13. "and that, my friends,

is why you should spend your lives eating my shit. Love, Rush"

[unhappycamper]

12. Sad, but true.....

The demise of the Soviet Union was closely followed by the collapse of their polluting infrastructure. With fewer pollutants, the atmosphere became more clear. More clear = more sunshine to the earth's surface = more warming = magnification of the greenhouse effect caused by CO2 & methane.

Not to worry: gays can't marry & Intelligent Design is becoming the dumbed down law of the land. I expect Kansas to be (educationally speaking) in the 12th century within the next two years.

Praise Jeebus!