Sentences with phrase «unknowns about aerosols»
Good description of unknowns about aerosols.
http://www.realclimate.org/ Not exact matches
The AR5 explanation for the hiatus as given in chapter 9 is basically that about half of the pause is natural — a small reduction in TSI and more aerosols from volcanoes, while the other half is unknown — including perhaps oversensitivity in models.
Barry (# 28) Yes I appreciate that * anthopogenic global warming has not been proven, there being unknowns that we know about but can not quantify, eg ocean heat content and aerosol cooling, that may or may not act as a pipeline of future warming.
I, on the other hand, am worried about the impact of a technology that has unknown consequences for the environment, and which in some regards is definitely known not to work — c.f the fact that it does nothing for ocean acidification, and also the implications of the mismatch in time scale between aerosols and CO2.