Copyright 2008-12 12 The Proposition Land Use Change + Emissions ==>>Higher Greenhouse Gas Concentration ==>> Radiative Forcing (Change in the Earth s energy balance) ==>>Atmospheric and Ocean Warming an imbalance between incoming solar radiation and outgoing infrared radiation that causes the Earths radiative balance to stray away from its normal state [there s a normal state ] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_forcing the influence of a climatic factor in altering the balance of incoming and outgoing energy in the Earth-atmosphere system http://www.eoearth.org/article/radiative_forcing
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