Sentences with phrase «while global dimming»

While global dimming may be causing us to under - estimate the amount of global warming, other effects may be causing us to over-estimate it.

While global dimming was cooling daytime temperatures, the increased greenhouse effect was warming the nights (Wild et al 2007).

Not exact matches

While I am a scientist, I am not a climatologist so I thought I'd ask what the mainstream opinion is of the «Global Dimming» phenomenon.

However, there is a price of sorts — while locally the Asian Brown Cloud amplifies the greenhouse effect, globally it masks the greenhouse effect due to the aerosol - induced global dimming.

Anyway, a while back I saw a Nova / BBC special about the Global Dimming phenomenon (pan evaporation rate, etc.) that apparently had been discovered fairly recently, sometime in the late 90's I believe.

Note that while this study looked at the aerosol effects, it makes no claim to actually match the «global dimming» results.

So while there may be additional, complicating factors (global dimming from the particulates slowing down the warming from the gases??)

Now that we have data on dimming, which was confirmed after 9/11 when all air trafic was grounded in the US and temperatures and sunlight rose while being monitored, web site development we can address this skewing of the data on global warming.

We will see that over the last several years, while correlations between CO2 and temperature exist in the data, much of the historical circumstantial evidence for AGW theory has gotten weaker, and we will cover «global dimming» and see if this effect makes the case for AGW stronger.

While we saw truly global dimming between 1950s - 80s (the sulfate aerosols were literally blown around the entire northern hemisphere), we currently find a more heterogeneous pattern.