In The 1970s Climate Modification Proposals Included Purposely Melting Arctic Sea Ice With Black Soo

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In The 1970s Climate Modification Proposals Included Purposely Melting Arctic Sea Ice With Black Soot

By Kenneth Richard on 2. August 2021
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In his 1975 book The Genesis Strategy, the late climate scientist Dr. Stephen Schneider reviewed contemporary climate modification proposals to reduce the severe 1960s and 1970s droughts, floods, and extreme weather…which were at that time associated with the ongoing global cooling. One proposal was to eliminate the Arctic’s sea ice by having aircraft dump black soot on the ice pack.

In 1974, Schneider reported that the Earth had warmed 0.6°C from 1880 to 1940, then cooled -0.3°C from 1940 to 1970. He suggested the warming could not have been due to human activity, but possibly the ongoing cooling might have been.

Image Source: Schneider, 1974

By 1975 Schneider had published a book, The Genesis Strategy,

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[The_Reader_David]

Yup.  And China's coal fired power plants (and to a lesser extent those in Russia, India and Poland) are dumping soot on the ice-pack.  This is a cause of human-induced climate change that is overlooked by the climate change alarmists, who want to explain everything in terms of greenhouse gas emissions -- the models either ignore arctic albedo, or consider changes in it secondary effects due to greenhouse gas emissions changing the dominant size of ice crystals in the surface layer.  Ignoring soot in the models, thus results in an over-statement of the effects of greenhouse gas emissions.

The problem with noticing this is that a cause of climate change that can be fixed by the Chinese Peoples Congress, the Russian State Duma and the Indian Parliament passing analogues of the American Clean Air act (and the executive in those countries actually enforcing the new laws) is that this doesn't give an excuse for the US Federal Government and the EU to seize control of the energy economy.