By the authority and knowledge vested in me by TV law school, I acquit CO2 of a felony charge of causing global warming and charge it with misdemeanor conspiracy to contribute to global warming, perjury, and promoting a riot. I also bring misdemeanor conspiracy indictments against the co-conspirators. If I loose in criminal court, I'll sue in civil court.
Indictment against meteoric dust:
News in Science - Cosmic dust may change climate - 25/08/2005
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Dust, dust everywhere
...Klekociuk says the disintegration of the meteor is unlikely to have had any immediate impact on climate.
However, the findings about the size of the particles should cause us to rethink the cumulative effect of cosmic dust globally, he says.
Dust has the potential to warm or cool the Earth depending on the size and composition of the particles.
It can do this by either scattering or absorbing solar visible light. If light scatters away from the Earth cooling occurs, and if it's absorbed there's warming.
It can also trigger cloud nucleation, which occurs what drops of water cling to a speck of dust, eventually causing clouds to form.
Impact on climate?
The magnesium, iron and silica composition of the meteor dust could also react with chemicals in the atmosphere, potentially eroding the ozone layer.
"If the dust from large meteors was much larger it would have a much larger climate forcing potential," Klekociuk says.
Analysis of the dust could also predict how the climate would be affected if a meteor were to crash into Earth.
Klekociuk says around 40 tonnes of cosmic dust fall to Earth each day.
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