This is not to deny the continuing importance of the major industrial economies, or
the potential feedback effects of slower growth in the major economies on commodity prices.
Not exact matches
The findings suggest that effective new greenhouse gas controls could help lessen the
effects of climate change on the release of carbon from soils of the northern permafrost region and therefore decrease the
potential for a positive
feedback of permafrost carbon release on climate warming.
Polar amplication is of global concern due to the
potential effects of future warming on ice sheet stability and, therefore, global sea level (see Sections 5.6.1, 5.8.1 and Chapter 13) and carbon cycle
feedbacks such as those linked with permafrost melting (see Chapter 6)... The magnitude of polar amplification depends on the relative strength and duration of different climate
feedbacks, which determine the transient and equilibrium response to external forcings.
I have a question about the
potential albedo
feedback effect on a ablating ice sheet surface.
We do not need models to anticipate that significant rises in atmospheric CO2 concentrations harbor the
potential to raise temperatures significantly (Fourier, 1824, Arrhenius, 1896), nor that the warming will cause more water to evaporate (confirmed by satellite data), nor that the additional water will further warm the climate, nor that this
effect will be partially offset by latent heat release in the troposphere (the «lapse - rate
feedback»), nor that greenhouse gas increases will warm the troposphere but cool the stratosphere, while increases in solar intensity will warm both — one can go on and on
The
effects of these particles is uncertain — another
potential devastating
feedback mechanism?
Never - the-less, it is generally accepted by most all climate scientists that, in the absence of
feedbacks, future increases in atmospheric CO2 will have less
effect on world temperature than past increases, and that there is a cap (in this chart around 1.5 degrees C) on the total
potential warming.