Sentences with phrase «aerosol cooling counteracting»

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«It is widely understood that aerosols have a net cooling effect on climate, counteracting the warming caused by greenhouse gases.

which would have counteracted the aerosol cooling effect.

They explain the pause as warming due to CO2, counteracted by cooling due to aerosols (see e.g. Table, p. 54 of the Technical Summary to AR5) and mysterious unknown forces («natural variability»).

The second issue raised in our Science paper (now available free, see bottom of this post) is that perhaps there shouldn't yet have been substantial long - term trends in hurricane intensity — whether we would be able detect them above the natural variability or not — because until the last couple of decades, aerosol cooling effects on hurricanes have been counteracting the effects of greenhouse gas warming.

Past research has suggested that the cooling influence of these sulfate aerosols helped counteract warming from greenhouse gases, said Fyfe.

Perhaps one of the factors in the cooling that occurred from the 1930s to the 1970s was this aerosol pollution, counteracting the expected warming from CO2 emissions, and the warming since the 1970s is a direct result of air pollution regulations that have decreased emissions of all kinds of particulates.