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Climate Management Issues
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Climate Management Issues

by Julie K. Gines
December 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
470 pages
16h 40m
English
CRC Press
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386 Climate Management Issues
in sea-surface temperature. Lindzen said, “We wanted to see if the amount
of cirrus associated with a given unit of cumulus varied systematically
with changes in sea-surface temperature. The answer we found was, yes,
the amount of cirrus associated with a given unit of cumulus goes down
signicantly with increases in sea surface temperature in a cloudy region”
(Herring, 2002).
What they discovered was that the earth has a natural adaptive infrared
iris—a built-in check and balance mechanism that may be able to counter-
act climate change to some extent. The iris hypothesis suggests that, simi-
lar tothe way the iris in a human eye contracts to allow less light to pass
through the pupil under bright light, ...
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ISBN: 9781439861066