>>20941785

>They're already blaming Climate change for these tornadoes.

International Maritime Organization, their fault

Unexpected Global Warming Spike Due to Abrupt Reduction in Shipping Emissions, Study Finds

Mike Schuler May 30, 2024

A new study has highlighted an unexpected consequence of reduced shipping emissions: a sudden and significant increase in global warming.

Human activities have long influenced the Earth’s climate, primarily through altering the atmospheric composition. This change generates what is known as “radiative forcing,” referring to the change in energy within the Earth’s atmosphere due to factors like greenhouse gases, which can affect climate change.

The warming impact of human-produced greenhouse gases has been somewhat counterbalanced by the cooling effect of human-made aerosols. However, in 2020, the International Maritime Organization’s low sulphur fuel regulations reduced the maximum sulfur content of bunker fuel burned by the global fleet of ships from 3.5% to 0.5% to benefit public health, leading to an abrupt 80% reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions from international shipping.

This unexpected change has resulted in what researchers describe as an ‘inadvertent geoengineering termination shock’ with a global impact. The sudden decrease can temporarily accelerate global warming by dimming clouds across the global oceans.

Scientists estimate that the regulation has led to a significant increase in radiative forcing across the world’s oceans. The study warns this increase could potentially double, or even triple, the warming rate in the 2020s compared to the rate since 1980.

The warming effect aligns with the recent observed temperature rise in 2023 and is projected to make the 2020s exceptionally warm. The radiative forcing is equivalent to 80% of the measured increase in planetary heat uptake since 2020, creating a strong hemispheric contrast with important implications for changing precipitation patterns, according to the study.

The study suggests that marine cloud brightening, where marine low clouds are seeded with aerosols to become brighter, temporarily cooling the climate, may be a viable geo-engineering solution. Of course, this comes with its own unique challenges.

The study, titled Abrupt reduction in shipping emission as an inadvertent geo-engineering termination shock produces substantial radiative warming, can be found in Communications Earth & Environment.

https://gcaptain.com/unexpected-global-warming-spike-due-to-abrupt-reduction-in-shipping-emissions-study-finds/

>>20941849

And cow farts trigger wildfires

>>20941940

Which stars are theirs?

>>20941966

Fedboi FF in the works

>>20942151

Been hearing that one for years now

>>20942221

Dear Mr. Yoo:

How about arms smuggling and Accessory to Murder?

Obama signed off on Fast & Furious and a BHP agent was murdered with one of those rifles

>>20942267

Q told us

>>20942336

Mitch is celebrating rising shipping rates

Mitch McConnell’s Freighted Ties to a Shadowy Shipping Company

After drugs were found aboard the Ping May, a vessel owned by his wife’s family’s company, Colombian authorities are investigating.

Lee Fang October 30, 2014

Before the Ping May, a rusty cargo vessel, could disembark from the port of Santa Marta en route to the Netherlands in late August, Colombian inspectors boarded the boat and made a discovery. Hidden in the ship’s chain locker, amidst its load of coal bound for Europe, were approximately 40 kilograms, or about ninety pounds, of cocaine. A Colombian Coast Guard official told The Nation that there is an ongoing investigation.

The seizure of the narcotics shipment in the Caribbean port occurred far away from Kentucky, the state in which Senator Mitch McConnell is now facing a career-defining election. But the Republican Senate minority leader has the closest of ties to the owner of the Ping May, the vessel containing the illicit materials: the Foremost Maritime Corporation, a firm founded and owned by McConnell’s in-laws, the Chao family.

Though Foremost has played a pivotal role in McConnell’s life, bestowing the senator with most of his personal wealth and generating thousands in donations to his campaign committees, the drug bust went unnoticed in Kentucky, where every bit of McConnell-related news has generated fodder for the campaign trail. That’s because, like many international shipping companies, Chao’s firm is shrouded from public view, concealing its identity and limiting its legal liability through an array of tax shelters and foreign registrations. Registered through a limited liability company in the Marshall Islands, the Ping May flies the Liberian flag.

McConnell’s ties to the Chaos go back to the late 1980s, when James Chao began donating to the senator. In 1993, McConnell married James’s daughter, Elaine Chao, a Republican activist and former Reagan administration official who would later serve as secretary of labor in the George W. Bush cabinet. James Chao emigrated to the United States from Taiwan, and founded the Foremost Maritime Corporation upon settling in New York. The company has grown significantly over the years, from acting as maritime agent during the Vietnam War to controlling a fleet of approximately sixteen dry-bulk cargo ships in operation today.

Foremost acts as a shipping agent, purchasing vessels made primarily in China and coordinating shipment of commodities. Records reviewed by The Nation reveal that Foremost transports corn, chemicals and other goods to cities throughout the world. The company has offices in New York and Hong Kong.

More:

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/mitch-mcconnells-freighted-ties-shadowy-shipping-company/