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Some big scientist was on CNN yesterday talking about Climate Change, which he believes in, and it said on the scroll that he was talking about RADIATIVE FORCING - and I never heard that term before and decided to look it up.
SO HERE GOES:Radiative forcing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_forcingIn climate science, radiative forcing is generally defined as the change in net irradiance between different layers of the atmosphere. Typically, radiative forcing is ...
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Explained: Radiative forcing - MIT News Office
web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/explained-radforce-0309.htmlMar 9, 2010 – When there's more energy radiating down on the planet than there is radiating back out to space, something's going to have to heat up.
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Global Warming and Radiative Forcing
atoc.colorado.edu/~seand/headinacloud/?p=204Feb 14, 2008 – Radiative Forcing, or RF, is specifically defined as the “change in net irradiance at the tropopause after allowing for stratospheric temperatures ...
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Radiative forcing - energy balances and the greenhouse effect ...
www.grida.no/.../radiative-forcing-energy-balances-and-the-greenho...Feb 22, 2012 – Radiative forcing is the change in the balance between radiation coming into the atmosphere and radiation going out. A positive radiative ...
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TS.2.5 Net Global Radiative Forcing, Global Warming Potentials and ...
Combining the component values for each forcing agent and their uncertainties yields the probability distribution of the combined anthropogenic radiative forcing ...
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Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing - IPCC
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2.4.4 Estimates of Aerosol Direct Radiative Forcing . ... 2.5.4 Radiative Forcing by Anthropogenic Surface ... 2.6.2 Radiative Forcing Estimates for Persistent ...
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CORE: Radiative Forcing
Radiative Forcing (RF) is the measurement of the capacity of a gas or other ... Radiative forcing is expressed in Watts per square meter (W/m2) or the rate of ...
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What the Heck is Radiative Forcing & Why Should My Aviation ...
www.treehugger.com/.../what-the-heck-is-radiative-forcing-.May 15, 2009 – You want to be a better eco-citizen, minimize your air travel, and want to buy a carbon offset for those times when you do have to fly. But before ...
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ESRL Integrating Themes: Radiative Forcing of Climate by non-CO2 ...
Radiative forcing of climate by trace gases is commonly referred to as the ... The total effective climate forcing for all GHGs including CO2 and ozone (O3) from ...
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Radiative Forcing of Climate Change - The National Academies Press
Committee on Radiative Forcing Effects on Climate. Climate Research Committee ... 4 Rethinking the Global Radiative Forcing Concept (83-99) · 5 Uncertainties ...