This increases the surface area of the tongue and allows
for more evaporation to happen, which helps keep your dog cool.
More evaporation occurs in a warming atmosphere, and on a world where water covers nearly three - quarters of the surface, it means an increase in water vapor in the air.
If that cooler 1 mm layer is indeed caused by evaporation drawing energy away upwards
then more evaporation should logically cause more cooling of the ocean bulk not less.
To start, a warmer atmosphere
creates more evaporation — for every 1 °F of warming, the saturation level is increased by about four percent.
That one doesn't usually make headlines but it should; that water vapor comes from
more evaporation because there is more exposed, open ocean.
It is a reminder that in a warming world, there is
also more evaporation to drive storms, which corresponds to heavier precipitation.
The additional warming causes
even more evaporation, followed by cloud formation and more warming, still.
Increasing cloud cover causes rising temperatures, which in turn
causes more evaporation and therefore more clouds and higher temperatures and so on, and so on.
For the same reasons, the loss of glaciers in the mountains create hotter rocks and
more evaporation of the water that remains.
While climate change does not cause droughts, it can make them worse, as a warmer atmosphere leads to
more evaporation from soils.
With the Earth known as the «water planet» because of over 70 % of the globe covered by deep oceans, warmer temps directly result
in more evaporation of the ocean water into the air - clouds.
On the other hand, the subtropical waters can be expected to become saltier in the future, for the same reason (increased hydrological cycle
gives more evaporation in the subtropics, thus increased salinities in subtropical waters).
Warmer temperatures and carbon dioxide spur tree growth that helps to cool the planet; warmer temperature cause
more evaporation over oceans which leads to move cloud cover and a more reflective atmosphere....
The wind disperses the existing water vapor, making room for more water vapor to be made, which
allows more evaporation — and thus cooling — to take place.
Increased temperatures
trigger more evaporation from reservoirs, and accelerate water loss from soils needed for agricultural production — all factors that boost demand for water, he added.
This process and the way in which the antlike agents increase the scores are designed to work in tandem so that busy routes
experience more evaporation than reinforcement, whereas uncongested routes undergo just the opposite.
At the same time, the extra sunlight causes
more evaporation off the ocean, which adds to downpours in the western tropics.
Will
more evaporation enhance the CO2 greenhouse effect or can more humidity also reduce the lapse rate acting to dampen the GHE?
Does more evaporation lead to more clouds and if so is the net effect of more clouds to increase albedo or to further increase GHE?
Since more evaporation leads to more precipitation, most climate researchers expected increased cirrus cloudiness to follow warming.
If there is more moisture in the air for the foregoing reasons, there must be more in the surface at equilibrium, and
hence more evaporation happening as part of that balance.
As carbon dioxide emissions have increased and the Earth's temperature as risen,
more evaporation takes place.
If things continue to worsen as climate change
brings more evaporation and less rain over time, other issues will come into focus for the seven states and part of Mexico that rely on the Colorado River.
Even though winter rain and snowfall could increase in parts of California — currently in the grip of calamitous drought — in the decades to come, overall there will be lower cold season precipitation and, because of higher temperatures,
ever more evaporation and ever more water demand for the surviving vegetation.