As those rays interact with the upper atmosphere, the effect would be to create an immense burst of electromagnetic energy.
Little is currently known about where such particles end up in the atmosphere and what overall effect they have on the climate.
Nonetheless, the idea that carbon dioxide spewed by the world's industries is causing more heat to be trapped in the atmosphere (the "greenhouse effect") has found wide acceptance.
Because cold water releases more CO2 into the air than warm water, the rate at which bottom water rises to the surface has a profound effect on the atmosphere above.
They proved that it cannot, as some had suspected, be an effect of Venus's atmosphere.
"The second effect is the turbulence of the atmosphere makes things fainter, " Tholen said.
Their scientists know that the only significant effect of increased CO2 in the atmosphere has been to improve global agricultural output, as CO2 is plant food, or oxygen to plants.
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The gas would soon find its way into the atmosphere, where it would add to the greenhouse effect and cause the temperature to rise.
But the presence of the tiny but growing U.N. observer team is having a "dampening effect" on what has been an atmosphere of "appalling" violence, said U.N.
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If it has an atmosphere like Earth's, with a corresponding greenhouse effect, its average surface temperature would be a balmy 22C.
This may be partly due to the effect of small, unresolved variations in the atmosphere, such as internal waves, that weakened the storm.
But the strength of the greenhouse effect depends on the chemical composition of the atmosphere, because the phenomenon is due to the absorption of infra-red radiation by various gases in the air.
Greenhouse effect: heating of the earth's atmosphere due to an increase in gases like carbon dioxide.
During an eclipse scientist are able to measure the effect of the sun on the Earth's atmosphere and observe the violent magnetic storms in outer atmosphere of the sun - the corona.
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.
It said the gases had "very high global warming potentials compared to carbon dioxide", as an amount about 1g in weight could have the same effect as 1 ton of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere.
This was because they saw the black-drop effect in a transit of Mercury, a planet that has no atmosphere.
The images from the Hubble, which has a clear view of the cosmos from its orbit above the Earth's turbulent atmosphere, will enable astronomers to gain a better understanding of black holes and the effect they have on material captured in their gravitational trap.
Although sulfate particles may have had the short-term effect of cooling temperatures, in the long run, pumping CO2 into the atmosphere spells trouble.
The basic effect is that given that the ground at night is generally cooler than the atmosphere, thus the air near the ground is cooler than the air higher up.
It also suggests the amount of aerosols that humans emit into the atmosphere could impact tree growth, as high levels of aerosols cause "global dimming", an effect that occurs when the levels of light reaching the Earth's surface fall.
These are pollutants, particularly ozone and soot, that do not hang around in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide does, but have to be renewed continually if they are to have a lasting effect.
Angela Caputo, for example, killed herself in an unimaginable manner: no one who had read her poems, with their charged and ambivalently childlike atmosphere, could have predicted such an atrocious death, stage-managed down to the finest detail for maximum terrifying effect.
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