Anthropo-generated Climate Change in Europe
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Environmental Conservation
- Vol. 19 (4) , 349-353
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0376892900031489
Abstract
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.Keywords
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