{"id":3145,"date":"2020-02-21T10:32:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T09:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klima-fakten.net\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2020-03-05T07:59:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T06:59:33","slug":"recent-albedo-change-and-climate-sensitivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klima-fakten.net\/?p=3145&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Recent albedo change and climate sensitivity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The climate discussion is overwhelmingly dominated by the discussion about the influence of \"CO_2\", which according the radiation transport equations describing the outgoing infrared radiation (OLR) has a certain influence on the earth’s radiation budget.
There are, however, more factors that need to be considered. The incoming energy flux, the SW insolation, is obviously of decisive importance<\/strong>. The actual amount of energy flux coming from the sun, the „solar constant“ has proven to be extremely stable, but the global albedo, which decides how much solar flux enters the atmosphere, is an extremely important control parameter<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dilemma about the earth’s albedo has been, that there is not a „nice theory“ of how to determine it from a simple (possibly human induced) cause<\/strong>. On the contrary it involves many currently badly understood factors, some of which are, but others are not under human control:<\/p>\n\n\n\n