Sentences with phrase «of aerosol pollution»

The net effect of aerosol pollution on global temperature is not well established.

So when you mix the two kinds of aerosol pollution up in the Asian brown cloud, one would expect climate effects to even out.

Indeed, conventional wisdom held that higher levels of aerosol pollution in the atmosphere should cool the earth's climate because aerosols can increase cloudiness; they not only reduce precipitation, which raises the water content in clouds, but they also increase the size of the individual water droplets, which in turn causes more warming sunlight to be reflected back into space.

It is important to note that in additional simulations, they demonstrated that the effect of aerosol pollution on cumulus cloud coverage is not absolute; it can cause an increase or decrease, depending on other meteorological conditions.

The sacred mountain is not the only place affected — an observatory in the U.S. Rocky Mountains detected a 50 percent reduction in snow as a result of aerosol pollution — but it is the only one with longstanding records to prove it.

The only «necessity» prompting the introduction of the aerosol pollution hypothesis is the necessity of rescuing a failing theory from falsification

The dominant climate impact of aerosol pollution is to scatter radiation back to space and thereby cool the earth «s surface.

Among the issues discussed: solar energy variations that could contribute to the ebb and flow of ice ages, new understanding of ice ages and the possibility of cooling because of aerosol pollution, but also the possible confounding factor of increasing greenhouse gases:

These underestimate the global cooling effects of aerosol pollution, so also underestimate sensitivity.

«Between the Fourth and Fifth [IPCC] Assessment Reports the best estimate of the cooling effect of aerosol pollution was greatly reduced.