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Plastic aerosols in the atmosphere could affect the climate

Physics World

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Tiny particles of plastic in the atmosphere can affect Earth’s climate, according to Laura Revell at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and colleagues. Yet even as airborne microplastics become an ever-larger part of the mix of atmospheric aerosols, their radiative influence is still virtually unknown. Altitude matters.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere Radiation Cooling Climate Scientist

The CO2 problem in six easy steps (2022 Update)

Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

The fact that there is a natural greenhouse effect (that the atmosphere restricts the passage of infra-red (IR) radiation from the Earth’s surface to space) is easily deducible from; i) the mean temperature of the surface (around 15ºC) and, ii) knowing that the planet is normally close to radiative equilibrium.

Radiation

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Science denial is still an issue ahead of COP28

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In an unchanging climate, the random fluctuations would lead to warming in some parts of the world and cooling in others. In a world with just random local fluctuations but no climate change, about half the weather stations would show a (more or less significant) warming, the other half a cooling. It’s not hard to understand.

Greenhouse

Greenhouse Radiation Cooling Carbon Dioxide

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Analysis: How fast can we stop Earth from warming??

A Greener Life

JUNE 3, 2022

The ocean retains heat for much longer than land does. If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. Picture how a radiator heats a home. Water is heated by a boiler, and the hot water circulates through pipes and radiators in the house. By Richard B.

Carbon Dioxide

Carbon Dioxide Fossil Fuels Sea Level Ocean

A Nobel pursuit

Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The key aspects were the inclusion of water vapour feedback as temperatures increased, and the use of ‘convective adjustment’ to maintain stability of the lower atmospheric column. The basic issue stems from the different timescales of the ocean and atmosphere. But let’s go back to the beginning.

Atmosphere

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The Rise and Fall of the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation”

Real Climate

MARCH 4, 2021

Two decades ago, in an interview with science journalist Richard Kerr for the journal Science, I coined the term the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation” (AMO) to describe an internal oscillation in the climate system resulting from interactions between North Atlantic ocean currents and wind patterns. Background.

Cooling

Cooling Ocean Radiation 2005

Antarctic extreme events: ‘All-time records are being shattered not from decades ago, but from the last few years and months’

Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

For example, Antarctica acts to cool our planet by reflecting solar radiation back to space by virtue of the brightness of its snow surface. Several floating ice shelves – the massive slabs of ice that push back grounded ice from flowing into the ocean – have catastrophically broken up in a matter of days because of such melting.

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Ocean Fossil Fuels Radiation Environmental Science

Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms

Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

Albedo The amount of solar radiation reflected from an object or surface, often expressed as a percentage. Atmosphere The gaseous envelope surrounding the Earth. The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% a reduction in ocean pH).

Greenhouse

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Getting physical with the climate crisis

Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

An area of high pressure above the Pacific Ocean was driven eastwards through the jet stream by a “Rossby wave” – a planetary-scale fluctuation arising from the Coriolis force. The Rossby wave eventually “broke”, dumping its energy – like an ocean wave hitting the shore – to create an area of high pressure locked over western Canada and US.

Cooling

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Clauser-ology: Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

However, not only is there an obvious energy imbalance (as seen by the growth of ocean heat content), it’s actually accelerating Loeb et al., He, however, goes seriously off the rails when he estimates the impact of clouds on the radiation budget.

Radiation

Radiation 2003 2020 Climate Change

Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion. Whenever there are combustion processes, of which there are many in our industrial society (e.g.,

Atmosphere

Atmosphere Carbon Emissions 2020 2012

Firenado: Spinning Fire is a Recipe for Disaster | BreezoMeter

Breezometer

MAY 23, 2022

This environmental spectacle occurs when a large region of extremely hot air, created by a wildfire interacts with cooler air higher up in the atmosphere. The combination of updrafts and downdrafts leads to atmospheric instability similar to the one that creates other whirling air phenomena like ‘ dust devils ’.

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Using Clouds to Fight Climate Change

HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

Climate Change

Climate Change Paris Agreement Atmosphere Cooling

AR6 of the best

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Projections of (a) temperature (constrained), (b) Arctic sea ice area (raw CMIP6), (c) ocean pH (constrained), and sea level (d)to 2100, and (e) to 2300 (constrained). and other things worth noting – for instance, the much better and more direct graphics that they have clearly worked on a lot. Figure SPM 8. 1981) which can be seen here.

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Sea Level 2012 Radiation Ocean

The Fuss about Methane

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

First, underwater – in the sediments on the bottom of swamps, lakes, and the ocean. OK, on to methane in the environment: The headline here – whether you’re talking about atmospheric concentrations, climate impacts, or emissions – is that there is a lot less methane than CO 2 , but it’s a more potent climate heater and it’s increasing faster.

Atmosphere

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Climatology: The Science of Global Weather Systems over the Long Term

Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

From the ocean oscillations to trade winds, pressure systems that drives temperature, airborne particles that influence local conditions and even the phases of the moon and Earth's wobble all affect the climate (1). The east of the ocean is colder than normal while the west is warmer than average. What Climatology Is.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere Climate Change Ocean Greenhouse

Physics: The Science of the Universe and Everything In It

Environmental Science

AUGUST 7, 2018

These early thinkers were Thales (5) who created natural philosophy and theorized that seismological events such as earthquakes had a natural cause (correct) but assumed (wrongly) that landmasses were giant rafts that reacted to ocean ripples which caused the quakes. He was wrong about this too but Anaximander had another idea.

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Plastic aerosols in the atmosphere could affect the climate

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Science denial is still an issue ahead of COP28

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A Nobel pursuit

The Rise and Fall of the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation”

Antarctic extreme events: ‘All-time records are being shattered not from decades ago, but from the last few years and months’

Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms

Getting physical with the climate crisis

Clauser-ology: Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

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Using Clouds to Fight Climate Change

AR6 of the best

The Fuss about Methane

Climatology: The Science of Global Weather Systems over the Long Term

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