Sentences with phrase «precise role of oceans»
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Scientists can measure how much energy greenhouse gases now add (roughly three watts per square meter), but what eludes precise definition is how much other factors — the response of clouds to warming, the cooling role of aerosols, the heat and gas absorbed by oceans, human transformation of the landscape, even the natural variability of solar strength — diminish or strengthen that effect.
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Significant world climate modification accompanied this change but the precise role of the Arctic Ocean in major Pleistocene climate events is controversial.