Wow, global warming, still happening everywhere except where I live!
Wow, global warming, still happening everywhere except where I live!
“The two very independent ways of looking at changes in Earth’s energy imbalance are in really, really good agreement, and they’re both showing this very large trend, which gives us a lot of confidence that what we’re seeing is a real phenomenon and not just an instrumental artifact, ” said Norman Loeb, the lead author of study.
“It’s likely a mix of anthropogenic forcing and internal variability,” said Loeb.
While the study does contend that mankind’s emissions have an effect in observed warming, data shows it to be a small one. As Richard notes in NoTricksZone, “In emitted thermal radiation, [the] graph shows the greenhouse gas impact is effectively offset by the cloud influence; both factors are cancelled out by temperature changes. This leaves the increase in absorbed solar radiation shown in graph (d) due to natural variations in clouds and surface albedo (SFC) as the primary driver(s) of top-of-atmosphere (TOA) flux forcing during the last two decades.”
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“The two very independent ways of looking at changes in Earth’s energy imbalance are in really, really good agreement, and they’re both showing this very large trend, which gives us a lot of confidence that what we’re seeing is a real phenomenon and not just an instrumental artifact, ” said Norman Loeb, the lead author of study.
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“It’s likely a mix of anthropogenic forcing and internal variability,” said Loeb.
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While the study does contend that mankind’s emissions have an effect in observed warming, data shows it to be a small one. As Richard notes in NoTricksZone, “In emitted thermal radiation, [the] graph shows the greenhouse gas impact is effectively offset by the cloud influence; both factors are cancelled out by temperature changes. This leaves the increase in absorbed solar radiation shown in graph (d) due to natural variations in clouds and surface albedo (SFC) as the primary driver(s) of top-of-atmosphere (TOA) flux forcing during the last two decades.”
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