Sentences with phrase «aerosol levels look»

Not exact matches

I'm pretty sure you can get the grey version of that into a strat - cooling / trop - warming situation if you pick the strat absorbers right, but Andy is certainly right that non-grey effects play a crucial role in explaining quantitatively what is going on in the real atmosphere (that's connected with the non-grey explanation for the anomalously cold tropopause which I have in Chapter 4, and also with the reason that aerosols do not produce stratospheric cooling, and everything depends a lot on what level you are looking at).

The second study meanwhile looked at how aerosol emissions impact the Earth's temperature through a phenomenon the researchers call «transient climate sensitivity,» or how much of the Earth's temperature will change when the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reaches twice its level during the pre-industrial times.

One hears of dire predictions of sea - level rises which don't seem to be eventuating, of stasis in global temperatures that weren't predicted, of claimed ad - hoc appeals to aerosol effects, etc., and that's without going into the general atmosphere of hostility to people like me who genuinely think the case for harmful AGW effects looks shaky.

A study in mid-2012 found that the sky would look no different post-geoengineering than it currently does in urban areas, which have higher levels of aerosols due to pollution.

By looking at carbon monoxide levels, aerosol quantities and thermal signatures from active fires, they were able to not only track the event while it happened, but also frame it within the context of previous fire episodes in the 15 - year satellite record.