ClimateWire: Choices the world makes about whether to cut man-made carbon dioxide emissions will determine the severity of climate change over the next thousand years -- or longer, according to a new report by the country's leading scientific advisory body, the National Academy of Sciences. That's because the greenhouse gas lingers in the atmosphere for hundreds or even thousands of years. "The bottom line is that because CO2 is so long-lived in our atmosphere, it could effectively lock the ......
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 19th, 2010
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