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Equity Watch - Global Environmental Government Unit - Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
It says over the past four decades, two major natural factors solar variation and volcanic aerosols had a cooling effect on the climate. Sceptics link climate change to these natural factors instead of rising carbon dioxide concentrations from industrial activity. ...
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News archive - 2002
The device could reduce energy related GHG emissions. 24th October 2002 RSPB Plea The Royal Society ... August 2002 Wing Tip US researcher David Travis, and colleagues, have reported a small but discernible cooling effect of air craft contrails on our climate. The group used the absence of air traffic ...
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YOGA DIALOGUES
Sitali breathing has a cooling effect on the body. Bhastrika energizes and Nadi Shodhana calms and creates balance. Kapalabhati helps to prepare the body and mind for meditation. The breath can be directed to different parts of our body and energy centers ...
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Climate change - Human Influence
Sulphate in our atmosphere has a net cooling effect (see below) and so goes some way to reduce the warming ... . Cleaner fuel technologies are today leading to a reduction in sulphate emissions and their incidental cooling effect on our climate. If greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase then their overall warming ...
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Global warming and cooling in the future
Earth would be an ice planet without the greenhouse effect. Weather prediction and climate prediction are complicated. The Earth is a complex thing. The Earth is ... dioxide levels are rapidly increasing. A large temperature increase has not occurred because of the cooling effect of sulfur dioxide and because of the thermal inertia of the oceans. You can ...
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Cool Pavements | Heat Island Effect | U.S. EPA
Pavements with higher solar reflectance are cooler in the sun, holding other factors constant. Porous, or permeable, pavements benefit from the cooling effect of evaporation. To ensure high-level performance, proper design and construction are essential in applying either cool pavement technique. Other factors affecting performance, cost, and ...
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Cooling in The Desert Southwest
Opening windows more on the downwind side will increase air flow. Evaporative Cooling Opening windows is very important when operating an evaporative cooler. A common mistake in the El Paso ... think of an evaporative cooler as providing a nice breeze, then the best way to kill that breeze and its cooling effect is to close windows. You can increase the amount of cooling ...
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NCAR Atmospheric Chemistry & Pollution Research: Chemistry & Effect on Climate
Without the greenhouse effect our planet would be covered in ice, and carbon dioxide occurs naturally--you're exhaling it ... with polar regions far more affected than the tropics (see sidebar). Other pollutants, however, have a cooling effect. Tiny particles of dust, soot, and other matter that are spewed by vehicles and ...
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CRU Information Sheet no. 13: Volcanoes and their effect on climate
This figure is also available as PostScript The Volcanic Effect on Climate Past volcanic events provide a guide to the impact of major eruptions. In ... The results showed good agreement with average surface temperatures over the Northern Hemisphere, highlighting the cooling in the northern summers of 1992 and 1993. After that time, both the model and ...
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Straw Bale Resources 2000: Guidelines on Passive Solar Heating and Cooling
Winter, eds. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on the use of solar energy for the cooling of buildings, San Francisco, California, U.S. Department of Energy/University of Colorado, Boulder. Bainbridge, D. ... .W. 1972. Shapes and orientations of houses for natural cooling. Transactions ASAE 15(1):126-128. Neubauer, L.W. and R.D. Cramer. 1968. Effect of shape of building on interior air temperature. ...
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