Sentences with phrase «aerosol pollutants»
"Aerosol pollutants" refers to harmful particles or substances that are suspended in the air. These pollutants can come from various sources like vehicle emissions, industrial processes, or natural sources like dust or wildfire smoke. Breathing in these aerosol pollutants can be harmful to our health and can contribute to air pollution. Full definition
Changes over the next few decades in the types of aerosol pollutants and where they are emitted will affect how climate changes.
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You can, of course, argue that other factors were at work in the early 20th century warming phase, but if you want to argue that the mid-century cooling was largely due to the neutralizing effect of industrial aerosol pollutants, then you can not, as did Rodgers, claim that any part of that earlier warmup was due to the burning of fossil fuels.
But their correlations play into the idea that «global dimming» (Nature News, subscpription) from aerosol pollutants has suppressed global warming until recent cleanups.
«Warming over the past 100 years is consistent with high climate sensitivity to atmospheric carbon dioxide combined with a large cooling effect from short - lived aerosol pollutants, but it could equally be attributed to a low climate sensitivity coupled with a small effect from aerosols.
The computer model determines how the average surface temperature responds to changing natural factors, such as volcanoes and the sun, and human factors — greenhouse gases, aerosol pollutants, and so on.
The severe decline in precipitation in the African Sahel during the past 30 years seems to be related to both anthropogenic warming and aerosol pollutants.
Aerosol pollutants are very small particles, and some researchers suspect they might be causing fog to form rather than rain because of the quantity of pollution particles in China.
The computer model determines how the average surface temperature responds to changing natural factors, such as volcanoes and the sun, and human factors — greenhouse gases, aerosol pollutants, and so on.
There are natural aerosols and aerosol pollutants.