HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion. But there’s a bright side to our black carbon problems: it doesn’t live very long.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

I didn’t use to think that eliminating methane emissions should be a priority. But it’s also a short-lived one, which only stays in the atmosphere for twenty years or so. In contrast, CO 2 emissions cause warming for 2-3 centuries or more. That warming could trigger other greenhouse gas emissions. According to the U.N.,

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

Satellites, for example, are used in meteorology to track weather systems and to monitor atmospheric fronts to predict what the weather will do next. Known as ENSO, they are opposite effects of the same process and are defined as an oscillation (a variation in magnitude) between the temperature of the atmosphere and the ocean.

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