This would imply that feedback actually works to reduce the net
effect of greenhouse warming, from a sensitivity of 1.2 to one something like 0.6 C per doubling.
I followed up by asking whether broad powerful fronts like those seen in the video emerge in climate simulations used to assess the
impacts of greenhouse warming.
So, although
much of the greenhouse warming is directly due to water vapor, the temperature «set point» is more strongly affected by the more stable and well - distributed CO2.
That is not to say that some steps can not be taken now; indeed many kids of energy conservation and efficiency increases make economic sense even without the
threat of greenhouse warming.
Because changes in tropical circulation have been strongly related to the recently observed planetary surface warming, this research is relevant to the
issues of greenhouse warming.
Then comes Kerry Emanuel, a climate scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who's been studying possible impacts
of greenhouse warming on tropical storms for decades — and who has lately been vocal about his longtime affiliation with the Republican Party.
Indeed, of all the silly things that have been said about the climate by political operatives and others who can not accept the 150 - year old
physics of greenhouse warming for ideological reasons, perhaps the silliest is the claim that scientists do not agree about those fundamental physics.
That affects ozone because one of the under - appreciated
consequences of greenhouse warming of the lower atmosphere is cooling of the stratosphere — something we already observe.)
I think the much more likely reason is because the Mann Hockey Stick, the poster
child of greenhouse warming and justifying the Kyoto Protocol, has been shown to be a dud, and some people are having difficulty coping with that reality.
The other significant finding is that solar forcing will add another 0.18 °C warming on
top of greenhouse warming between 2007 (we're currently at solar minimum) to the solar maximum around 2012.
«I would say, and I don't think I'm going out on a very big limb, that the data as we have it does not support a warming... I personally feel that the likelihood over the next
century of greenhouse warming reaching magnitudes comparable to natural variability seems small»
The global warming theory has been based all along on the idea that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans would absorb much
of the greenhouse warming caused by a rise in man - made carbon dioxide, then they would let off that heat and warm the atmosphere and the land.
«Tropospheric warming in the tropics is a
signature of greenhouse warming, but it is more accurate to say that it is not a unique signature (i.e., you get this «hotspot» with all types of forcings).
This arises when they depart from long - standing and long - accepted practice in response to contrarian memes (for example, by entertaining the possibility that a short period of a reduced rate of warming presents a challenge to the
fundamentals of greenhouse warming.)
To name two examples, both John Tyndall — who first discovered the roles of water vapor and carbon dioxide as greenhouse gases in 1859 - 60 — and Svante Arrhenius — who hand - calculated the first
model of greenhouse warming in 1896 — used this terminology in the titles of their ground - breaking papers.
The earth is being pulled to a warmer climate and will be pulled increasingly in this direction as the «anchorman»
of greenhouse warming continues to grow stronger and stronger.
«It's not a major effect compared to other
sources of greenhouse warming, but when it contributes up to 10 percent [of aircraft - produced warming emissions], you have to take it into account,» said Brasseur.
«Many who are unwilling to accept the full
brunt of greenhouse warming have embraced a more comforting compromise reminiscent of the Tychonic system *: that CO2 has some role in climate but its importance is being exaggerated.
The observed long - term pattern of warming closely matched computer
predictions of a greenhouse warming «signature,» entirely different from changes that might be due to solar activity, volcanoes, or other possible influences on climate.