Sentences with phrase «aerosol cooling probably»
Aerosol cooling probably reduced global warming «by about half over the past century».
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On the other hand, «if some volcanoes that are large enough go off and if they are the dominant cause [of increasing aerosols], then we will probably see some increases» in cooling.
The warming commitment if we stop all human emissions (GHG and aerosol) is probably very substantial: The cooling effect of the aerosol will very quickly disappear, thereby «unmasking» the greenhouse warming, approximately half of which has been canceled by aerosol cooling up to now.
There are other factors involved in cooling, of course (e.g., recent La Nina's), but aerosols are probably the most significant source of uncertainty on timescales longer than a few years..
The reason greenhouse gases can be (and probably are) responsible for more than 100 % of the observed warming is that other factors (mainly human aerosol pollution) have caused cooling at the same time.
The warming commitment if we stop all human emissions (GHG and aerosol) is probably very substantial: The cooling effect of the aerosol will very quickly disappear, thereby «unmasking» the greenhouse warming, approximately half of which has been canceled by aerosol cooling up to now.