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Posted Sat Jun 28 2014: from University of Chicago, via ScienceDaily:
To address climate change, nothing substitutes for reducing carbon dioxide emissions http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1403920294
... But finding the political consensus to act on reducing CO2 emissions has been nearly impossible. So there has been a movement to make up for that inaction by reducing emissions of other, shorter-lived gasses, such as methane, hydrofluorocarbons, and nitrous oxide, and particulates such as soot and black carbon, all of which contribute to warming as well. Pierrehumbert 's study shows that effort to be, as he puts it, a delusion. "Until we do something about CO2, nothing we do about methane or these other things is going to matter much for climate," he said.
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