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

HumanNature

This balance describes how much energy is being reflected back into space versus how much is being absorbed by our atmosphere; a positive change in the balance indicates that we’re taking more energy in (net warming) and a negative balance indicates that we’re reflecting more energy out (net cooling).

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Why I Was Wrong About Methane

Legal Planet

Because methane contributes to ozone pollution, emissions cause immediate health effects as well as warming effects. If we can slow warming a bit, even if we end up in the same place ultimately due to carbon emissions, that gives us more time to prepare for what’s coming down the road. According to the U.N., “a

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Disinformation Alert: Fossil Fuel Interests Preparing to Deploy False Claims about New EPA Rules

Union of Concerned Scientists

These new protections will include updates to power plant standards on carbon emissions , mercury pollution , and toxic coal ash pollution , just to name a few. EPA has already finalized a rule that aims to address interstate ozone pollution , dubbed the Good Neighbor Plan.

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Climatology: The Science of Global Weather Systems over the Long Term

Environmental Science

It also incorporates both a warm and a cool period during the oscillation - both of which impact upper atmospheric winds (10). This radiation hits the atmosphere and is absorbed by the ozone layer which reduces the most harmful. The greenhouse gases are methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide (12). Deforestation.