Atmospheric CO2: principal control knob governing Earth's temperature.

نویسندگان

  • Andrew A Lacis
  • Gavin A Schmidt
  • David Rind
  • Reto A Ruedy
چکیده

Ample physical evidence shows that carbon dioxide (CO(2)) is the single most important climate-relevant greenhouse gas in Earth's atmosphere. This is because CO(2), like ozone, N(2)O, CH(4), and chlorofluorocarbons, does not condense and precipitate from the atmosphere at current climate temperatures, whereas water vapor can and does. Noncondensing greenhouse gases, which account for 25% of the total terrestrial greenhouse effect, thus serve to provide the stable temperature structure that sustains the current levels of atmospheric water vapor and clouds via feedback processes that account for the remaining 75% of the greenhouse effect. Without the radiative forcing supplied by CO(2) and the other noncondensing greenhouse gases, the terrestrial greenhouse would collapse, plunging the global climate into an icebound Earth state.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Science

دوره 330 6002  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010