My posit is that
atmospheric effects act as an amplifier of the solar input.
Not exact matches
«As the Clean Air
Act and amendments have taken
effect there has been a reduction in sulfur emissions from coal combustion, so that the amount of
atmospheric sulfur deposited each year is only 25 percent of what it used to be.
The
atmospheric greenhouse
effect, an idea that authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier 1824, Tyndall 1861, and Arrhenius 1896, and which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere
acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the
atmospheric system.
The
atmospheric greenhouse
effect, an idea that authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier 1824, Tyndall 1861, and Arrhenius 1896, and which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere
acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the
atmospheric system.
The increased effective radiating surface area of
atmospheric CO2 would also
act like a stepping stone for heat to leave the planet but how much cooling these
effects have is anyones guess.
The physics is very clear that CO2 is the principal greenhouse forcing gas, and that
atmospheric water vapor
acts as a feedback magnifier that enhances the terrestrial greenhouse
effect.
A. Lacis writes «The physics is very clear that CO2 is the principal greenhouse forcing gas, and that
atmospheric water vapor
acts as a feedback magnifier that enhances the terrestrial greenhouse
effect.
The latter
effect acts to reduce CO2 sensitivity by increasing the aerosol - sensitive SW tau, increasing both cloud density and cover, decreasing upper tropospheric specific humidity and INCREASING SW albedo and will increasingly do so as the
atmospheric level of CO2 rises!
The latter
effect acts to reduce CO2 sensitivity by increasing the aerosol - sensitive SW tau, increasing both cloud density and cover, decreasing upper tropospheric specific humidity and SW albedo and will increasingly do so as the
atmospheric level of CO2 rises!
The IPCC summary is deeply flawed as a scientific document and as I have explained in other recent articles it appears impossible for increased levels of
atmospheric CO2 at the puny levels caused by mankind to affect the characteristics of the atmosphere enough to significantly enhance the greenhouse
effect and even if it could do so then any such
effect would be quickly neutralised by the primary solar / oceanic driver and the oceans
acting in conjunction with evaporation, condensation and
atmospheric convection (which includes clouds and rain).
As GCR is the primary source of
atmospheric ionization, it has been suggested that GCR may
act to amplify relative small variations in solar activity into climatologically significant
effects (Ney, 1959), via a hypothesised relationship between ionization and cloudiness (e.g., Dickinson, 1975; Kirkby, 2007).
«The
atmospheric greenhouse
effect, an idea that many authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier 1824, Tyndall 1861, and Arrhenius 1896, and which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere
acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the
atmospheric system.
The thought experiment of varying L -LCB- * -RCB- in a hysteresis loops is rather fanciful, but many
atmospheric processes could
act to either increase or decrease the greenhouse
effect over time.