Traduction de «Forçage du climat » (Français → Anglais) :

(16) Other greenhouse gases, climate forcers or air pollutants should not be covered by the Union MRV system at this stage to avoid requirements to install not sufficiently reliable and commercially available measurement equipment, which could impede the implementation of the Union MRV system.

This is where the biggest uncertainty is, in forcing of the climate by changes in the radiation balance at the earth's surface.

Canada's Minister of the Arctic Council has said that Canada will advance work on short-lived climate forcers like black carbon.

While deep cuts in CO remain the backbone of efforts to limit the long-term consequences of climate change, as I said a moment ago, rapid reductions in emissions of short-lived climate forcers such as black carbon and methane have been identified as perhaps the most effective strategy to slow warming and melting in the Arctic over the next few decades.

I'm convinced, when I sit around tables and hear the radiation people debate at the WCRP, that what is presented in this report, which gives the actual radiative forcing of each of these increases of gases, is an accurate estimate of what the reality is.

However, when I consider the basic processes that operate in the climate system, when I consider that the magnitude of the changes of the radiative forcing due to these increased gases is getting to be of the same order of magnitude as the radiative changes associated with the triggering of the switches between glacial and interglacial periods, when I consider the speed at which those switches occur in the new geological records we get from ice cores and deep-sea sediment cores, and when I consider the whole mass of anomalous conditions which seem to have been appearing in the last one to two decades, I am convinced that climate change i ...[+++]n the near future is a real possibility.