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Message started by lee on Nov 30th, 2024 at 1:23pm

Title: Marine emissions of methanethiol increase aerosol
Post by lee on Nov 30th, 2024 at 1:23pm
"Marine emissions of methanethiol increase aerosol cooling in the Southern Ocean

Ocean-emitted dimethyl sulfide (DMS) is a major source of climate-cooling aerosols. However, most of the marine biogenic sulfur cycling is not routed to DMS but to methanethiol (MeSH), another volatile whose reactivity has hitherto hampered measurements. Therefore, the global emissions and climate impact of MeSH remain unexplored. We compiled a database of seawater MeSH concentrations, identified their statistical predictors, and produced monthly fields of global marine MeSH emissions adding to DMS emissions. Implemented into a global chemistry-climate model, MeSH emissions increase the sulfate aerosol burden by 30 to 70% over the Southern Ocean and enhance the aerosol cooling effect while depleting atmospheric oxidants and increasing DMS lifetime and transport. Accounting for MeSH emissions reduces the radiative bias of current climate models in this climatically relevant region."

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq2465

Bloody sulphide emissions. How dare they disrupt the settled science. ::)

Title: Re: Marine emissions of methanethiol increase aerosol
Post by Jasin on Dec 1st, 2024 at 10:13am
I think one of the greatest mass extinctions was due a lot to massive marine methane expulsions that basically poisoned the world.

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