Carbon Dioxide Cooling Radiation 
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 7, 2025
Albedo is the total reflection of incoming solar radiation by Earth. You might be thinking, if the burning of fossil fuels increases Earths albedo due to additional aerosols in the atmosphere, shouldnt this offset any impact from the effects of increased heat-trapping emissions like carbon dioxide? What is albedo?
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. in IPCC TAR).
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Real Climate
AUGUST 9, 2021
There are other things that will get the headlines (the expected time before we get to 1.5ºC or 2ºC, the headline SLR numbers, the ‘unprecedented rate’ statement, constraints on climate sensitivity , carbon cycle feedbacks, the implications for the carbon budgets etc.), 1981) which can be seen here. Johnson, A. Lebedeff, P.
A Greener Life
JUNE 3, 2022
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. The radiators warm up and heat the air in the room. The radiators are, in fact, cooling down, but their stored heat is still warming the air in the room.
Environmental Science
JULY 22, 2018
It also incorporates both a warm and a cool period during the oscillation - both of which impact upper atmospheric winds (10). The sun receives a constant stream of energy produced by nuclear processes that generate an immense amount of heat, light, and radiation. At the center of our solar system is a star that we call “The Sun”.
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.
Real Climate
OCTOBER 12, 2021
What they showed are the distinct fingerprints of two kinds of forcing; increasing solar activity which warms all parts of the atmosphere, and carbon dioxide increases which warm the surface and troposphere, but cool the stratosphere and above. But let’s go back to the beginning. 241-259, 1967. CO;2">[link] 2.0.CO;2.
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