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Anthropo-generated Climate Change in Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Robert C. Balling Jr  and
Sherwood B. Idso
Robert C. Balling Jr
Affiliation:
Office of Climatology and Department of Geography, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA.
Sherwood B. Idso
Affiliation:
Office of Climatology and Department of Geography, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA.
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In reviewing the results of our analyses of European temperature and precipitation data, we see patterns that are similar to those discovered in our prior studies of the United States and the British Isles: precipitation begins to increase at about the time that Northern Hemispheric SO2 emissions began their rapid ascension, while prior upward trends of surface-air temperature are dramatically truncated.

We also find that surface-air temperature trends of different localities over the past three-and-a-half decades are closely tied to the amount of aerosol sulphates in the atmosphere above them. The wide range and thrust of these several observations, along with their theoretical expectation, provides strong support for the premise that anthropo-generated climate change is indeed occurring in Europe, but that it may well be SO2-induced rather than CO2-induced.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , Winter 1992 , pp. 349 - 353
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1992

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