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CMIP6: Not-so-sudden stratospheric cooling

Real Climate

The dominant factors are changes in CO2 (a cooling), ozone depletion (a cooling), warming from big volcanoes, and oscillations related to the solar cycle. That means the greenhouse substances are basically just CO2 and ozone, and they absorb in quite different parts of the spectrum. Thompson et al. of these products (Zou et al.,

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

Figure 2: Source breakdown and impact overview of black carbon from the climate and clean air coalition (Climate & Clean Air Coalition 2018). AMAP Assessment 2015: Black Carbon and Ozone as Arctic Climate Forcers.” Compounds that can absorb energy are important because they alter the radiative balance of our Earth’s atmosphere.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone. They are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, CFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons.

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Scanning the cosmos for signs of alien technology

Physics World

They do this by analysing the electromagnetic absorption spectra of an exoplanet’s atmosphere as it transits its sun, seeking the presence of gases such as oxygen, methane, water vapour and ozone (a proxy for oxygen).