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Reducing Short-Lived Climate Pollutants Can Cut the Rate of Global Warming <\/strong>
\nBy Half and Arctic Warming by Two-Thirds for the Next 30 to 40 Years<\/strong><\/p>\n

Summary. 17 July 2012. CO2 is responsible for 55 to 60% of radiative forcing. See Fig. 1. Fast and
\naggressive CO2 mitigation is essential to combat the resulting climate change. But this is not enough.
\nCO2 mitigation must be combined with fast and aggressive mitigation of the pollutants causing the
\nother 40-45% of warming: black carbon aerosols, methane and the tropospheric ozone it catalyzes,
\nand hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Because these pollutants have atmospheric lifetimes of days to
\ndecades, they are referred to as short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs). While we have known about
\nSLCPs for more than 35 years, the following scientific developments have catapulted them to the
\nfront lines of the war against climate change<\/p>\n