Sentences with phrase «cooling effect of smoke»

Forster's chapter also reports on another important uncertainty: the cooling effect of smoke and other aerosols, which some argued almost negated the warming effect of greenhouse gases in the short term.

Not exact matches

In a recent study, for instance, well - respected climate models were shown to have completely opposing estimates for the overall effect of the clouds and smoke in the southeast Atlantic: Some found net warming, whereas others found cooling.

Smoke and particle effects are top notch, blood splatters from kill shots are sickeningly gooey, and moving in and out of stealth mode's translucency has a cool predator like effect.

It also helps explain the initial cooling after the Industrial Revolution began (the smoke effect overwhelmed the relatively weak warming effect back then), the increase of global temperture during WW2 (shut down of industries) and decrease after WW2 (re-industrialization) and acceleration in the 1970's after the passage of the Clean Air Act.

Basically, they are shit - scared that this «CO2 fertilization» effect (mentioned with scarcely concealed fear and loathing in the IPCC Group 1 2007 report — not that you sceptical lot would have noticed) is the «smoking gun» of the last decade which has started delivering a flat lining in warming and more recently even cooling.

There, he co-authored an article for Science arguing that the warming effect caused by rising amounts of carbon - dioxide in the atmosphere would be swamped by the cooling effect caused by aerosol pollution like dust and smoke.