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- Title
Strong present-day aerosol cooling implies a hot future.
- Authors
Andreae, Meinrat O; Jones, Chris D; Cox, Peter M
- Abstract
Atmospheric aerosols counteract the warming effects of anthropogenic greenhouse gases by an uncertain, but potentially large, amount. This in turn leads to large uncertainties in the sensitivity of climate to human perturbations, and therefore also in carbon cycle feedbacks and projections of climate change. In the future, aerosol cooling is expected to decline relative to greenhouse gas forcing, because of the aerosols' much shorter lifetime and the pursuit of a cleaner atmosphere. Strong aerosol cooling in the past and present would then imply that future global warming may proceed at or even above the upper extreme of the range projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
- Publication
Nature, 2005, Vol 435, Issue 7046, p1187
- ISSN
1476-4687
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/nature03671