Could Be Time to Massage Those Hot Models Again
25th April 2013
A newly discovered mechanism for cooling the planet – potentially, according to its discoverers, more significant even than the well-known chilling effects of volcanic eruptions – has now been further investigated.
The mechanism in question is the action of difficult-to-study atmospheric molecules known as “Criegee intermediates”, whose existence was first theorised in the 1950s by German chemist Rudolf Criegee but not confirmed until recent years by boffins using methods which have only lately become available.
So — how’s that whole Global Warming thing working out for you?