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Don't know what the effect is, but I would imaging that channelling nearly all the light of such an area into a highly absorbtive object would greatly decrease albedo and would certainly affect on the region.
Solar Dreams, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Of course, the warming that results form melting the ice and exposing the darker and more absorbtive surface inevitable results in more moisture in the atmosphere which begins to fall out as snow at high altitudes and lattitudes and once the snow and ice cover is restored, things cool back off - until the next time something happens.
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Of course, the warming that results form melting the ice and exposing the darker and more absorbtive surface inevitable results in more moisture in the atmosphere which begins to fall out as snow at high altitudes and lattitudes and once the snow and ice cover is restored, things cool back off - until the next time something happens.
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The U.S. has vastly more money than Afghanistan has absorbtive capacity.
Afghanistan, Pakistan, And Policy Alternatives: Our Brand Is Crisis | ATTACKERMAN 2009
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Would we expect the signal from these to be “blown away” by changes in the absorbtive environment and changes in flux densities of subatomic particles in the background? aurbo
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Made expressly for photographic use. 100\% pure cotton fibre, very absorbtive and non-linting.
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Slide 18: Humectants and Moisturizers Plant based humectants and moisturizers are more protective and more absorbtive.
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But throughout our history to date, the absorbtive powers of the US economy in dealing with government stupidity has been amazing.
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Now the IR absorbtive and reradiative properties of C02 are fairly well understood, but there’s a lot more going on in the climate.
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And for those of you who don’t understand the mid 19th century comment, the absorbtive and reradiating properties of CO2 were discovered in the 1850’s by Tyndall. bender
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