Sentences with phrase «warming agent»

Choices regarding emissions of other warming agents, such as methane, black carbon on ice / snow, and aerosols, can affect global warming over coming decades but have little effect on longer - term warming of the Earth over centuries and millennia.

They also fail to mention that sunlight can travel tens of METRES into the water and is thus a powerful warming agent compared to the single MILLIMETRE penetration of down welling infrared radiation from the atmosphere.

In my view, the most important omission related directly to science and technology aspects of the greenhouse gas issue is the failure to point out the tremendous opportunity that exists to limit warming over the next few decades by imposing strong, mandatory controls of short - lived warming agents (so methane, black carbon, and tropospheric ozone).

Methane is a more potent warming agent than CO2, although its duration in the atmosphere is measured in decades rather than centuries.

Recent studies identify black carbon, a component of ultrafine particulate air pollution, as a critical climate warming agent both in the atmosphere and when deposited on snow and ice.

Whereas the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere will contribute to warming the planet for many decades to come, Ramanathan says, the good news about warming agents such as black carbon is that they don't linger in the atmosphere for more than a few weeks.

With regard to solutions, you'll not easily see RealClimate going further than a simple: «reduce CO2 emissions, and other warming agents too.

While aggressive emissions cutbacks of short - lived warming agents could halve the warming projected to 2050 and determined efforts to promote adaptation and enhance resilience could help reduce impact costs and damages, many regions will suffer greatly over this period.

Leaks of methane, a more potent warming agent than carbon dioxide though with a shorter lifespan, make up another significant chunk of potential emission reduction.

Knowing the right combination other warming agents, such as water vapor, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide, will also help us assess habitability of the hundreds of billions of other Earth - like planets estimated to reside in our galaxy.

Chris Severson - Baker, Alberta director of the Pembina Institute, said reducing methane emissions is critical because the gas is 25 times more potent as a climate warming agent than carbon dioxide.

Arfur Bryant says: «They can not logically claim a large contribution to a (false) warming effect from CO2 and then explain why a 40 % increase of this «powerful warming agent» has produced no empirical, causative increase in temperature.»

«The study was the first to specifically isolate CO2's effect from that of other global - warming agents and to find quantitatively that chemical and meteorological changes due to CO2 itself increase mortality due to increased ozone, particles and carcinogens in the air.»

Carbon dioxide is not the only warming agent — we certainly have to move to limit its emissions, but we also certainly have to limit emissions of the short - lived warming agents, and doing so now needs to be a very high priority.

By itself, black carbon is a warming agent; however, it is not usually emitted in a pure form.

Water vapor and sea ice, for instance, are potent warming agents, while dust and sea ice are cooling agents..

Black soot is a warming agent of it's own, absorbing more of the sun's heat over vast northern areas — instead of reflecting sunlight back into space.

With all the masks I've tried over the years this is the first with a warming agent, which I am now obsessed with!

Since CO2 is also a greenhouse gas — a warming agent — it then warms the earth even further, thawing out even more gas.

Black carbon — soot — is a global - warming agent the immediate control of which will slow the demise of Arctic sea ice faster than will control of any other global - warming agent, Jacobson said.

Black carbon — soot — is a global - warming agent the immediate... Read more →

Given the short atmospheric lifetime of some warming agents, temperatures in the longer term will be little affected by mitigation action of these agents in this decade, although mitigation could slow the current rate of warming.