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... actual globalwarming to date is being 7 masked by cooling aerosol particles (Figure 1 and Ref. 5), thus, as such particles are 8 removed by the clean up of air pollution, about half of hidden global ... clean up of air pollution, about half of hidden globalwarming will be 9 unmasked. This factor alone indicates that addressing globalwarming quickly is critical. 10 Stabilizing temperatures ... the security of nations. 28 29 Figure 1. Primary contributions to observed globalwarming from 1750 to today from global model 30 calculations. The fossil-fuel plus biofuel soot estimate4...
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... Annual Reviews AR118-13WATER VAPOR /GLOBAL WARMING 459lowest 2 km. Also shown are the comparable relative humidities from a climatemodel in use for globalwarming and atmospheric dynamics studies ... Lindzen RS. 1990. Some coolness con-cerning global warming. Bull. Am. Mete-orol Soc. 71:288–9954. Lindzen RS. 1994. On the scientific ba-sis for globalwarming scenarios. Environ.Pollut. 83:125–3455. ... in the effective grid size. Climate warming
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... suspects, and by 2005 one deemed most likely was, and remains, rapid climate change and really fast globalwarming brought about by not a little methane and a whole lot of carbon dioxide poured into ... Rea examined cores obtained from the deep-sea record to search for potential changes in this global temperature gradient by looking at the amount of dust hitting the Paleocene–Eocene oceans. ... boundary, volcanic ash levels increased. This increase could be due to only a sud-den increase in global volcanic activity, about 58 million to 56 million years ago. Further work in many places...
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