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23 Oct '12, 4pm

Confronting Climate Change: 9 Clean Replacement Technologies - Green Energy News: Confronting Climate Change: 9

The largest greenhouse gas by volume, carbon dioxide (CO2), is also the most persistent, remaining in the atmosphere for centuries or millennia. The small GHG cutbacks imposed for three decades under consensus emissions-reduction plans, such as Obama campaign proposals or the Kyoto Protocol, would allow the huge remaining volume of heat-trapping gases to reach the atmosphere and to remain there for a very long time. By 2050, when stringent emissions-reductions are supposed to take effect, the consensus emissions-reduction programs will have allowed hundreds of billions of tons of additional GHGs to reach the atmosphere, where the persistent gases will combine with the existing volume of GHGs to worsen many climate change hazards. In essence, the consensus GHG emissions-reduction programs would not attain any tangible improvements in climate change dangers; but instead woul...

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