Tropical Tropopause Layer: Nature Will Selectively Buffer Human-Caused Global Warming
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 15:20
in Earth & Climate
Don't count nature out yet.Some aspects of climate change are natural. And some mitigation will be also, according to researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Johns Hopkins University in the US and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. As the globe warms, ocean temperatures rise, leading to increased water vapor escaping into the atmosphere. Water vapor is really the most important greenhouse gas and its impact on climate is amplified in the stratosphere. read more