Reducing Short-Lived Climate Pollutants Can Cut the Rate of Global Warming By Half and Arctic Warming by Two-Thirds for the Next 30 to 40 Years Summary. 17 July 2012. CO2 is responsible for 55 to 60% of radiative forcing. See Fig. 1. Fast and aggressive CO2 mitigation is essential to combat the resulting climate change....

  Perhaps you thought that the whole “planet isn’t warming” meme was killed by this summer’s bombshell Koch-funded study. After all, it found ”global warming is real,” “on the high end” and “essentially all” due to carbon pollution. Sadly, denial springs eternal. Long-debunked denier David Rose has an article in the Daily Mail,“Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report...

Projected radiative forcing by ODSs, HFCs, low-GWP substitutes, and CO2 ( 12). The blue hatched region indicates what would have occurred in the absence of the Montreal Protocol, with 2 to 3% annual production increases in ODSs [data taken from ( 5)]. Added to the radiative forcing from ODSs [data from ( 9)] are the...