American scientists from the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Science at Miami State University have discovered that global warming continues not only due to carbon dioxide emissions (CO).2), but also due to CO itself2 It becomes a more potent greenhouse gas over time. The study was published in the scientific journal magazine Science.
The team used modern climate models and other tools to analyze the impact of increasing carbon emissions on the stratosphere, which cools as CO concentrations increase.2.
The amount of heat retained in the atmosphere as a result of the proportional increase in carbon dioxide concentration is called radiative forcing. For a long time, this parameter was considered constant, that is, it was assumed that the heat capacity of different greenhouse gases remained at the same level.
Modeling has shown that cooling the stratosphere increases the heat-trapping effect of carbon dioxide, which in turn increases CO.2 stronger greenhouse gas.
“This discovery shows that radiative forcing is not constant, but changes as the climate responds to increasing carbon dioxide,” said physicist Ryan Cramer, one of the study’s authors.
Previous scientists I learnedthat tackling greenhouse gas emissions could increase the number of weather disasters.