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Originally Posted by redpoint5
So those "coal-rollers" are doing us a favor :P My question is, do the climate models take that into account?
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Yes, as best they can. The guestimates have been integrated into the general circulation models since the 1980s.
We also now know that the human race was reduced to around 700 mating pairs after a 'global-cooling' event was precipitated by stratospheric aerosols from the super-volcano, Mount Tabo eruption, in what is now the Indonesian archipelago, hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Mary Shelley wrote 'Frankenstein' during 'the year without a summer' after an Icelandic volcanic eruption did a baby version of the same thing.
Benjamin Franklin coined the term 'parasol effect' to describe the phenom.