For this reason, approaches to geo-engineering that merely reflect heat back into space need to be viewed cautiously.
For one thing, we're going to need to cool the planet somehow, probably by reflecting some sunlight back into space.
So they would cool the Earth by hanging around and by reflecting more heat from the sun back into space.
He noted that with rising energy prices and companies cutting back on space, the commercial real estate market must start innovating.
In fact, even the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change acknowledges that pollutant particles reflect sunlight back into space, which has a cooling effect.
Instead, he returned back from space to devote his life to a more personal American dream of husband, father, university professor and professional service.
Since the heat it radiates back into space depends on its temperature, the afternoon side of an asteroid radiates more heat than the morning side.
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For example, the bright snow- and ice-covered landscapes of Canada and Siberia during winter reflect most solar radiation straight back into space, keeping the surface cold.
This would make them whiter so they reflect more sunlight back into space, reducing the sea surface temperature - which is the primary driver of hurricanes.
Instead, these giants may simply have dumped all their contents back into space, dispersing heavy elements like iron equivalent to the mass of 10 of our Suns.
Another, which would oppose warming, is a rise in the quantity of sulphate-based aerosols, which encourage cloud formation and thus cool the air by reflecting sunlight back into space.
But the global temperature mainly depends on how much energy the planet receives from the sun and how much it radiates back into space quantities that change very little.
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They also conclude that greenhouse warming has partially been offset by the cooling effect of aerosols - tiny particles of dust thrown into the atmosphere that can reflect solar radiation back into space.
Where the ice vanishes entirely, the surface loses its usual highly reflective whiteness - which sends most solar radiation back into space - and is replaced by darker waters instead which absorb more heat.
In addition to its weather-watching mission and collection of climate records, MSG-3 has a radiation sensor to measures the amount of solar and infrared energy that is reflected back into space, to better understand climate processes.
She is a walking recruitment icon who can attract kids to future NASA careers, girls and boys who can learn to do the jobs to get the U.S. back into space to find out what is out there.
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Last September a team led by researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in La Jolla, California, looked at whether clouds could be whitened artificially (and thus caused to reflect more sunlight back into space) using particles emitted from a boat.
Most of it is, of course, radiated back into space. (It is the partial blocking of this radiation by gases such as carbon dioxide that causes the much-talked-of greenhouse effect.) Some of it, however, goes in the opposite direction, into the ground.
Many students of climate change argue that, although the artificial release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide works to raise the global temperature, particulate pollution should, by promoting cloud cover and thus reflecting solar energy back into space, have a compensating cooling effect.
But if Svensmark was correct, it would mean that periods of high solar output should coincide with reduced cloud formation (due to reduced cosmic ray incidence), which in turn would have a warming effect on the Earth, since less sunlight would be reflected back into space by clouds.
Another example of his unorthodox thinking is his observation that painting the roofs of buildings around the world white and using light-coloured road surfaces rather than blacktop would reflect a lot of sunlight back into space possibly enough to have an effect on global warming as big as taking every car in the world off the road for a decade.
It works similar to other devices -- gesture back to delete, forward to space and hook back to the left to enter.
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We're the only craft capable of bringing significant cargo back from the space station.
Well, incoming solar radiation is reflected back out into space as well by the same processes.
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"At the highest level I think it puts a spotlight back on the space, " Bonney says.
With future and ancient civilizations taken care of, lets head back out into space.
Higher temperatures will melt ice, which lowers the albedo, reducing reflection of sunlight back out into space.
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Once I came back to this space I started piecing my life together.
This is a consequence of darker surfaces absorbing more heat from the Sun rather than reflecting it back out into space.
The spacecraft would have a "unique view" of the sunlight reflected back out to space by our planet, hence its name, Earthshine.
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