The latest research suggests that it amounts to about 4 percent of the «radiative forcing,» which is the fancy term scientists use to talk about
the overall warming effects of greenhouse gases.
Not exact matches
Overall these aerosol
effects promote cooling that could offset the
warming effect of long - lived
greenhouse gases to some extent.
To me all the witnesses and senators are obviously persons
of consequence but I don't think your excerpt shows that anyone should think he takes issue with this statement — «No one questions that surface temperatures have increased
overall since 1880, or that humans are adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, or that carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases have a
warming effect on the planet.»
This availability
of natural
gas supplies does reduce the buildup
of greenhouse gasses, but the
effects are not very significant in terms
of the
overall threat
of global
warming.
Bated, A
warming lower troposphere results from increased
greenhouse gases in the troposphere, with differing
effects on other regions
of the
overall atmosphere (cooling in the stratosphere and mesosphere for example).