So I guessed irradiation, albedo, greenhouse effect, ocean currents, and evaporation.
Completely forgot about volcanos and biotic pump effects.
I am sure there are more ...urban heat island effects for mega cities and roads (and people) cutting through rainforest and disrupting animal migration must have some (unknown) effects as well.
Hello Ugo! I really appreciate this but would love it if you clarified that these dynamics are driven by life: plants, animals, etc. and the interactions among them. (Maybe you can add that?)
That's one of the reasons why climate science is complicated. The biosphere plays with all the 5 factors (except for the 5th one, maybe), sometimes more than one. So, forests cause cooling by affecting the hydrological cycle, but cause warming because of their relatively high albedo. Grassland, instead, does not have a large effect on evaporation, but it sequesters more carbon than forests in the soil, and also causes cooling because of its higher albedo. And then, wildfires cause warming in the short run because they emit CO2, while they cause cooling in the long run because they create "recalcitrant" carbon compounds. And much, much more. It is a huge tangle of factors and counterfactors that makes climate such a complicated story.
I read sites that see more changes in solar irradiation, of visible and non-visible sorts, and proton-flows, than what is passed-off here as negligible.
So I guessed irradiation, albedo, greenhouse effect, ocean currents, and evaporation.
Completely forgot about volcanos and biotic pump effects.
I am sure there are more ...urban heat island effects for mega cities and roads (and people) cutting through rainforest and disrupting animal migration must have some (unknown) effects as well.
Hello Ugo! I really appreciate this but would love it if you clarified that these dynamics are driven by life: plants, animals, etc. and the interactions among them. (Maybe you can add that?)
That's one of the reasons why climate science is complicated. The biosphere plays with all the 5 factors (except for the 5th one, maybe), sometimes more than one. So, forests cause cooling by affecting the hydrological cycle, but cause warming because of their relatively high albedo. Grassland, instead, does not have a large effect on evaporation, but it sequesters more carbon than forests in the soil, and also causes cooling because of its higher albedo. And then, wildfires cause warming in the short run because they emit CO2, while they cause cooling in the long run because they create "recalcitrant" carbon compounds. And much, much more. It is a huge tangle of factors and counterfactors that makes climate such a complicated story.
I read sites that see more changes in solar irradiation, of visible and non-visible sorts, and proton-flows, than what is passed-off here as negligible.
I am personally no expert.
Thanks for your elucidating and educationg post !!! 👍👍👍
Nice to see an article, entirely free of partisan slang.
Earth's temperatures have varied wiiiidely during the last 100k yrs. as cores from the Arctic and other places undisputably show.
By narrowing or slicing the screened window, anyone can "produce" results beneficial for his hidden or openly fear-porn agenda ...
Thousands of measuring-stations across the globe are purposedly located (or not removed) from newly created local heat-spots for the a.m. goals.
Unfortunately, climate science has been almost entirely hijacked by the control-freaks and mass-murderers.
well I'm not going to rewrite my whole post, erased because my mouse passed over the Get Ap button
There used to be an app for windows that served to avoid just that -- but it seems to have disappeared in the GBHW (the great black hole of the web)
There are many options to avoid such a disaster occurring in the future:
- either tidy-up your pad,
- get a slower mouse,
- reduce your reaction-time or
- check for Parkinson's 🤣🤣🤣 (take it easy!!!)
Please be so kind as to re-consider compose your post again (it will be far easier now); maybe it's really worth it ... 🤞🤞🤞