Ship Tracks In The Sky: A Story Of Cloud Generation And Modification
Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 15:49
in Earth & Climate
"Climate forcing due to aerosol changes is a wild card," concluded James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Reto Ruedy, Andrew Lacis, and Valdar Oinas in Global warming in the twenty-first century: An alternative scenario. "Current trends, even the sign of the effect, are uncertain. Unless climate forcings by all aerosols are precisely monitored, it will be difficult to define optimum policies."* read more
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