The particles have a global cooling effect that is at least five times greater than the global
warming effect from the ships» CO2 emissions.
As explained in Chapter Two, this was largely a result of dust and aerosols sent by humans (and volcanoes) into the atmosphere, which temporarily overwhelmed the already well - understood
warming effect from greenhouse gases.
By absorbing less sunlight than either green or black roofs, white roofs offset a portion of
the warming effect from greenhouse gas emissions...
I have been meaning to link to this post for a while, but the Reference Frame, along with Roy Spencer, makes a valuable point I have also made for some time —
the warming effect from man's CO2 is not going to be zero.
The warming effect from anything other than increased pressure or higher solar input will be immediately offset by the expansion of the atmosphere reducing molecular density at the surface.
RokShox says: October 24, 2013 at 12:31 pm «The climate model assumes that water vapor, the most important greenhouse gas, would increase in the upper atmosphere in response to the small
warming effect from CO2 emissions.»
The climate model assumes that water vapor, the most important greenhouse gas, would increase in the upper atmosphere in response to the small
warming effect from CO2 emissions.
Climate changes in the deep past (going back hundreds, thousands or even millions of years) can not be explained, let alone quantitatively modeled without a substantial
warming effect from CO2.
It's telling that no physics - based climate model has been developed that can simulate past and recent climate changes without a substantial
warming effect from an increase in greenhouse gas concentrations.
It is generally accepted that
the warming effect from CO2 increases roughly as the logarithm of CO2 concentration.
Thus there does seem to be a mechanism whereby
the warming effect from human CO2 (indeed all greenhouse gases) could be removed naturally as it arises.
But is does clearly show
a warming effect from the CO2 that is present.
The leap from the known radiative properties of CO2 to the atmospheric
warming effect from increasing human CO2 emissions is giant.
Believers say: «Only if we include a strong
warming effect from CO2 can we explain the past 60 years» warming.
Throughout the period 1961 to about 2001, there was a steady cumulative net
warming effect from the sun.
So despite over a century of a CO2 - induced warming effect, these other factors helped mitigate
this warming effect from about the 1940s to 1970s, resulting in slight global cooling.
In most all of the climate models,
the warming effect from feedback is actually much larger than
the warming effect from CO2 alone.
** This seems like a totally logical way to show
the warming effect from CO2, but the IPCC always insists on showing just warming over time.
The equation seems to be from Mann 1998, and is for
the warming effect from CO2 without feedbacks.
All one needs to cancel
any warming effect from GHGs is slightly more vigorous convection reaching a fractionally higher level.
The scale of the solar induced natural variability that has been observed over more than 500 years swamps
any warming effect from human CO2.
Some say that at the current level of 380 parts per million we are close to saturation as regards more
warming effect from extra CO2.
On the converse, side particulates (smoke) have also risen and have to some extent offset
the warming effect from greenhouse gases.
But because they are released in tiny traces, they currently contribute less than 1 percent of the climate -
warming effect from human - generated carbon dioxide.
Research by an international team of scientists recently published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters says that the cooling effect of aerosols is so large that it has masked as much as half of
the warming effect from greenhouse gases.
Combining the greenhouse
warming effect from hydrogen, water and carbon dioxide on planets sprinkled throughout the cosmos, distant stars could expand their habitable zones by 30 to 60 percent, according to this new research.
During a 10 - year investigation detailed in the latest issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research, Stanford University scientist Mark Jacobson isolated the widespread
warming effects from all sources of soot â $» the visible residue of burned wood, crops, oil, biomass and other fuels â $» from the climate impacts caused by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.
R&S 71 was one of the first studies using modeling, and their results found minimal
warming effects from CO2 and large cooling effects from aerosols.
Not exact matches
This was probably due to outgassing of CO2
from the
warming oceans and the reverse
effect when they cooled.
Every day we read about some real or contrived environmental or ecological
effect «proven» to arise
from global
warming.
You could try chilling in a bowl, then scooping... obviously the scooping and shaping would
warm up the dough a bit vs baking straight
from the fridge, and I'm not sure what
effect that might have on the cookies.
Every corner of the earth wastes food, and every nation feels the
effects of a
warming planet, in part caused by methane released
from the 1.3 billion tons of food that go uneaten every year And yet, the specifics of food loss and waste vary by country — and to be effective, the solutions have to be local.
I want to say that there are some factors missing
from his analysis — I remember reading about how the heat island phenomena can have an observable
effect because of the dome of
warm air which forms during the day.
Probably far too complicated for this site, but the «costs» entirely disregards long - term costs - pollution, health problems (like coal extraction workers), and, obviously, the trillions in expected expenses
from global
warming effects, both responding to and trying to mitigate.
To explore what these new findings could mean for soil carbon storage in a
warming world, the team compared output
from a soil model that includes the
effect of temperature on microbial lifespan to models unaffected by temperature change.
Some observers quietly worry that, under Trump, a new focus on climate engineering could become part of a justification for delaying government action to curb carbon emissions, with the reasoning that geoengineering technologies could later be used to remove carbon
from the atmosphere, or prevent the
warming effects of solar radiation.
Pollutants that form minute droplets in the atmosphere have horrendously complex
effects — so it's far
from certain what they mean for global
warming
Extra carbon dioxide means a
warmer world — and then positive feedback
effects from things like water vapour and ice loss will make it
warmer still
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.
Researchers
from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) suggest that early Mars may have been
warmed intermittently by a powerful greenhouse
effect.
Small Steps Diplomats hope there will be some progress on funding to help developing countries most at risk
from the
effects of global
warming, particularly in Africa and small island states.
Whilst methane - burning is cleaner that other fossil fuels, any methane not burnt and released in the emissions
from the engine has a much greater
warming effect than oil - based fuel.
But these severe winters may be a temporary phase within longer term
warming: By the end of the century, the researchers report, the Arctic Oscillation could overpower the cooling
effect from WACE — and winter temperatures over Eurasia will gradually increase.
«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.»
The researchers then linked the healthcare - related emissions to specific environmental and health outcomes, including global
warming; ozone depletion; respiratory disease
from air pollutants; cancer
from chemical exposure; and the environmental
effects of acid rain, among others.
«Considering the Southern Ocean absorbs something like 60 % of heat and anthropogenic CO2 that enters the ocean, this wind has a noticeable
effect on global
warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg
from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.
A new study by scientists
from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups predicts that the
effects of climate change will severely impact the Albertine Rift, one of Africa's most biodiverse regions and a place not normally associated with global
warming.
And a third found that climate - induced sea - surface temperature anomalies over the northeast Pacific were driving storms (and moisture) away
from California, but the
warming also caused increased humidity — two competing factors that may produce no net
effect.
The future of the currents, whether slowing, stopping or reversing (as was observed during several months measurements), could have a profound
effect on regional weather patterns —
from colder winters in Europe to a much
warmer Caribbean (and hence
warmer sea surface temperatures to feed hurricanes).
Catastrophic
effects of global
warming are being felt
from the deserts of Darfur to the island nation of Kiribati