THC shutdown in a global
warming scenario offsets some of the global mean - warming, which might look like a good thing.
Not exact matches
Finally, our simulated AOA for 2020 — 2100 in the RCP2.6
scenario is capable of
offsetting warming and ameliorating ocean acidification increases at the global scale, but with highly variable regional responses.
If clouds really formed more easily / frequently to reflect more sunlight as the planet
warms (or, in this
scenario, stopped forming, and stopped reflecting sunlight near the equator as the planet cools, providing an
offset to the increased albedo to the north), then this
scenario wouldn't come about.
While the direct emissions saved from Arctic shipping may be significant in the context of shipping emissions overall, the net emissions
scenario of an open Arctic are unlikely to
offset the
warming Arctic, not by a long shot.
However it turns out that for the range of
scenarios considered in the simulations behind SPM Fig. 10, the dependence is mostly
offset by a dependence of how much
warming is «delayed» by the thermal inertia of the oceans (which will also depend on the rate of change in forcing and hence emissions).
Warm oceanic pulse plus active sun and cool oceanic pulse plus quiet sun are both
offsetting scenarios.