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07 March 2008
Shipping cools down the earth’s atmosphere, a seminar in Brussels heard this week. Rather than contribute to climate warming, emissions from ships are having the opposite effect, one of the industry’s top scientists told a gathering in the European Parliament.
David Lee of Britain’s Manchester Metropolitan University said that shipping’s “cooling” effect easily outweighs the warming effect of the carbon dioxide it produces, by a potentially huge margin. The only snag is that the cooling agent is mostly sulphur, which has its own undesirable side effects, such as acid rain.
Shipping cools down the earth’s atmosphere, a seminar in Brussels heard this week. Rather than contribute to climate warming, emissions from ships are having the opposite effect, one of the industry’s top scientists told a gathering in the European Parliament.
David Lee of Britain’s Manchester Metropolitan University said that shipping’s “cooling” effect easily outweighs the warming effect of the carbon dioxide it produces, by a potentially huge margin. The only snag is that the cooling agent is mostly sulphur, which has its own undesirable side effects, such as acid rain.
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