1. PAPERS OF NOTE.
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CLIMATE change , *CARBON dioxide , *AIR pollution , *ATMOSPHERIC temperature , *EMISSION control - Abstract
The article reports on the climate impacts of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. In its Fourth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggests that about 50 percent of a carbon dioxide increase will be removed from the atmosphere within 30 years. It is reported that the logarithmic relationship between carbon dioxide and its radiative forcing implies that the time scale at which atmospheric temperature declines will be longer.
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- 2009