Sentences with phrase «cool planet»

They come up with all kinds of hypothetical feedback mechanisms involving more natural aerosol emissions in response to global warming: Dimethylsulfide from marine phytoplankton (although a very intriguing possibility, this has never been confirmed to be a significant feedback mechanism, and there is ample evidence to the contrary, which is omitted from the report), biological aerosols (idem), carbonyl sulfide (idem), nitrous oxide (idem), and iodocompounds (idem), about which they write the following: «Iodocompounds — created by marine algae — function as cloud condensation nuclei, which help create new clouds that reflect more incoming solar radiation back to space and thereby cool the planet.»

Adam Sobel points to an important tradeoff between reducing greenhouse gases that warm and reducing aerosols that cool the planet (op - ed, July 15).

«It will be harder for the volcanic gasses to reach high enough into atmosphere to help cool the planet.»

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By scattering incoming solar radiation, they can significantly cool the planet.

But scientists are studying volcanoes in case humanity does need to deliberately cool the planet in the face of catastrophic climate change, an emerging field known as geoengineering.

As indicated in Fig. 1, anthropogenic activities that warm and cool the planet largely cancel after 1998, which allows natural variables to play a more significant role.

In order to slow down climate changes likely caused by the increase in human - generated greenhouse gases, some scientists and policymakers are exploring ways in which to cool the planet.

And the culprit that tried to cool the planet in spite of ever - rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?

Once again, we are forced to endure yet another lame article that frames the whole discussion in terms of a scientific «fix» that is still on the drawing board; that of sulphate aerosols as a means to deflect solar radiation and thereby cool the planet.

So, reflecting radiation back into space could cool the planet on average, but it can not reverse the effect of the greenhouse gases — not even remotely.

The most current research shows that aerosols do temporarily cool the planet, masking the ongoing effects of global warming.

Low clouds cool the planet will high clouds warm the planet.

It is very simple to pump this to the surface and cool the planet for centuries to come, and generate net energy at the same time.

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The researchers calculated that calcite could not only reflect light into space and cool the planet, but actively repair the ozone layer by neutralizing the acids caused by pollution that kick off harmful chemical reactions.

In theory we could create enormous floating cities using this technology, with food and energy created by the pumps, and cool the planet at the same time.

So, if we can't stop what we've set in motion, what if we could just cool the planet off by making it more reflective — more like a disco ball than a baseball?

In February, the National Academies of Science released two major reports on geoengineering, one on carbon dioxide removal technologies (to draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and hence reduce the greenhouse effect) and the other on «albedo modification» or solar radiation management technologies (to reflect a fraction of sunlight back to space and thereby cool the planet).

Like other high, thin clouds, contrails reflect sunlight back into space and cool the planet.

Greenhouse gases — like carbon dioxide — trap heat and warm the planet, while fine particles suspended in droplets, known collectively as aerosols, usually cool the planet by reflecting the sun's energy away.

What will Australia's role look like in mounting this historic social, political and technical mobilisation to cool the planet fast?

La Niña cool the planet and El Niño warm.

These natural climate regimes warm or cool the planet.

manacker I wrote «all the time these cycles are working to warm and cool the planet, the enhanced greenhouse effect is working constantly, and on an ever - increasing basis, to warm the climate.

Proposals for the first trials to cool the planet include cloud brightening and spraying aerosols into the ozone layer.

Geoengineering to cool the planet by deliberately altering Earth's atmosphere is highly controversial, with sceptics fearing it will fail and mess up the climate even more.

The technique, which is known as «stratospheric aerosol injection», could cool the planet in a similar way to a large volcanic eruption.

«It would simply be making those existing clouds just a little bit brighter and could help cool planet.»

I'm not advocating geoengineering, but it illustrates the principle that we can cool the planet (temporarily) regardless of what is causing it to heat up.

If he really thought this plausible, it should scare him, as increasing CO2 concentrations would cool the planet!

But as I said, all the time these cycles are working to warm and cool the planet, the enhanced greenhouse effect is working constantly, and on an ever - increasing basis, to warm the climate.

Similarly, atmospheric aerosols, generally human - caused, can increase albedo and cool the planet — especially if they also increase cloudiness by providing condensation nuclei for WV.

IF WE can't reduce emissions enough, what else can cool the planet?

So - called solar geoengineering aims to cool the planet by deflecting some of the Sun's incoming rays.

The «shade» would be a layer of pollution deliberately spewed into the atmosphere to help cool the planet.

Additionally, evaporation won't cool the planet, because it only moves heat from the ground into the atmosphere, where, like electricbikeguy said, it's a greenhouse gas.

Clouds cool the planet by reflecting solar energy back to space and also trap heat and radiate it back to Earth.

Although there is no evidence that manmade CO2 emissions play any detectable role in climate change, the very idea that Mother Nature may cool the planet despite humanityâ $ ™ s furious output of greenhouse gases should be even worse for the climate alarmistsâ $ ™ way of thinking.

While carbon dioxide keeps heat from escaping Earth, substances such as sulfur dioxide, a common air pollutant, reflect solar radiation, helping cool the planet.

Not only is geoengineering not working to cool the planet, it CA N'T work.

CO2 limits won't cool the planet, but they can make the difference between continued accelerating global warming to catastrophic levels vs. slowing and eventually stopping the warming at hopefully safe levels

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that aerosols cool the planet by between 0.1 and 1.9 watts per square meter (Wm2)(a small air conditioner cools by 60 Wm2).

«All you have to do is basically fly airplanes up into the stratosphere and dump a pile of crap up there, and you'll cool the planet.»

Unfortunately, it is during the sunlit months of the year that the sea ice exerts its ever - dropping ability to cool the planet.

Svensmark argues that this leads to an increase in the amount of cloud coverage, and that the extra clouds cool the planet by reflecting sunlight back into space.

It describes a set of technologies that seeks to reflect a small fraction of sunlight back into space to cool the planet.

Author Paul Hawken and a team of modelers tried to answer that question by ranking 100 solutions in order of their potential to cool the planet.

Anyway, I like to frame it in terms of «what evidence do you have to warrant your belief that GHGs will cool the planet?»