Sunday, October 2, 2011

What are climate forcings?

Climate forcings are mechanisms which affect the climate. The intensity of the climate change is not able to be determined but rather speculated. The term should not be perceived as a negative annotation. In recent years climate forcing have received a bad rap. Everyone gets super excited when the terms are mentioned. Everyone is eager to mention global warming and the green house effect.

The positive part of climate forcing is that it keeps us all warm, and adversely cool too. It drives the weather and powers green energy. The sunlight that heats up the earth, this is positive.

Negatively the green house affect has been warming the earth too much lately. I honestly prefer warmer weather, but polar bears don't seem to adapt well to the warming weather. Their ice shelves are thawing and natural environment is no longer existing. Humans have driven many animals into extinction, but for some reason feel guilty about this. This sad feeling we get talking about the poor polar bears however is not enough to force the climate to be cooler. Maybe we should let that toasty weather heat up our cold hearts and absorb some of that energy.

The albedo determines much of the earths climate forcing, this is the reflectivity of the earth's surface. The snowy ice caps shine that UV light back out of our atmosphere, rather the dark concrete found in urban areas create warmer temperatures.

File:Albedo-e hg.svg

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