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CMIP6: Not-so-sudden stratospheric cooling

Real Climate

As predicted in 1967 by Manabe and Wetherald , the stratosphere has been cooling. The dominant factors are changes in CO2 (a cooling), ozone depletion (a cooling), warming from big volcanoes, and oscillations related to the solar cycle. So the net effect is less absorption and more emittence, and thus they give a cooling.

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The enigma of Trappist-1 b: a thick atmosphere or airless rock?

Physics World

For an atmosphere dominated by greenhouse gases such as CO 2, which is strongly absorbing, temperature is expected to increase with increasing pressure (at lower levels). Haze is an efficient absorber of stellar radiation. In our solar system, Titan’s atmosphere also shows thermal inversion due to heating through haze absorption.

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Can Life Survive the Death of the Sun?

Scientific American

The difference exists because greenhouse gases in the air essentially trap heat from the sun, warming Earth above the calculated temperature. At the same time its surface temperature will drop, so it becomes ruddier, even as it radiates energy 2,400 times stronger than it does now. This transforms the sun into a red giant star.

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The CO2 problem in six easy steps (2022 Update)

Real Climate

Step 1: There is a natural greenhouse effect. This means that there is an upward surface flux of IR around (~398 W/m 2 ), while the outward flux at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) is roughly equivalent to the net solar radiation absorbed (~240 W/m 2 ). Step 2: Trace gases contribute to the natural greenhouse effect.

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AR6 of the best

Real Climate

The radiative forcing bar chart has gone full circle: Almost every IPCC report has a version of the radiative bar chart showing the contributions over the historical period of all the different forcings (greenhouse gases, aerosols, solar, etc.). Oddly enough this is most reminiscent of the very first bar chart that appeared in Hansen et al.

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The Rise and Fall of the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation”

Real Climate

These interactions were thought to lead to alternating decades-long intervals of warming and cooling centered in the extra-tropical North Atlantic that play out on 40-60 year timescales (hence the name). Background. any oscillation that was produced has to be internally generated.

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Phantastic Job!

Real Climate

Warm temperatures prior to the Ordovician glaciation, rises of temperature through the Devonian, a dip through the Carboniferous, peaking again at the beginning of the Triassic, slightly cooler in the Jurassic, peaking again mid-Cretaceous and then (roughly speaking) cooling into the Neogene (and the last 3 million years of ice age cycles).