Sentences with phrase «means higher albedo»

More clouds means higher albedo, which in turn might mean a cooler climate.

More clouds means higher albedo, which in turn might mean a cooler climate.

Not exact matches

In her global maps of Europa, Callisto and Ganymede, the color gradient represents the surface temperature — blue means colder and therefore, presumably a more reflectively surface (higher albedo).

However, I had to wear my white dress, because it's perfect for being outside in the heat (white increases your albedo, and a higher albedo means more sunlight reflected off of you, so you don't feel as warm!).

That means that global albedo has also been low and could explain global temperatures remaining high after last years El Nino.

This cooling all combines to let the ice extent spread further south (meaning an even higher albedo, less H2O, less CO2, etc., and so the ice age deepens and temperatures continue to drop).

18.4wm - 2 higher assuming the same albedo means a radiative forcing of 3.23wm - 2, which is almost the forcing you get from doubling of CO2 or increasing solar output by 2 %.

Keep in mind there's a dearth of insolation at high latitudes so albedo becomes increasingly less important so snow cover over land doesn't mean as much.

In Antarctica, the ice that covers the continent has a higher albedo than clouds, so more clouds means warming.

However, I am not a «warmista» by any means — we do not know how to properly quantify the albedo of aerosols, including clouds, with their consequent negative feedback effects in any of the climate sensitivity models as yet — and all models in the ensemble used by the «warmistas» are indicating the sensitivities (to atmospheric CO2 increase) are too high, by factors ranging from 2 to 4: which could indicate that climate sensitivity to a doubling of current CO2 concentrations will be of the order of 1 degree C or less outside the equatorial regions (none or very little in the equatorial regions)- i.e. an outcome which will likely be beneficial to all of us.

The albedo is far higher for clouds than land and sea, so more clouds means cooling for most of the world; EXCEPT for Antarcitca.

In this article I present prima facie evidence that the ongoing natural increase in spring insolation occurring at high northern latitudes, coupled with the positive feedback effect of the resultant snow and ice loss reducing the region's mean albedo over summer, comprises just such a causative agency.

This means the existing ice becomes more persistent, fresher (with a higher melting / freezing temperature), with a higher albedo.

I'm a Lukewarmer - Skeptic who accepts that H2O, CO2 and other so - called «greenhouse gases» in the Atmosphere do cause the mean temperature of the Earth Surface and Atmosphere to be higher than they would be if everything was the same (Solar radiation, Earth System Albedo,...) but the Atmosphere was pure nitrogen.

And I think you hit the nail on the head with: «5) Once we scientifically - oriented Skeptics accept the reality of the Atmospheric «greenhouse effect» we are, IMHO, better positioned to question the much larger issues which are: a) HOW MUCH does CO2 contribute to that effect, b) HOW MUCH does human burning of fossil fuels and land use changes that reduce albedo affect warming, and, perhaps most important, c) Does the resultant enhanced CO2 level and higher mean temperature actually have a net benefit for humankind?»

Which means that the proportion of heat in the ocean as opposed to the atmosphere might be slightly different (big deal because the oceans store so much heat), that albedo might be slightly higher because you have less areas covered by forests which are darker than clear land and thus absorb more sunlight, and so on.