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The CO2 problem in 6 easy steps
Description: A six-step explanation for why increasing CO2 is a significant problem (without using climate models). The six steps describe the natural greenhouse effect, how trace gases contribute to the natural effect, how trace greenhouse gases have increased due to human emissions, why radiative forcing is a useful diagnostic, that climate sensitivity is around 3 degrees C for a doubling of CO2, and why "radiative forcing X climate sensitivity" is a significant number. [Source: RealClimate: Climate science from climate scientists]
URL: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/08/the-co2-problem-in-6-easy-steps/#more-462
Availability: Full Text
Source: RealClimate: Climate science from climate scientists
Publish Date: 8/6/2007
Reading Level: Basic
Page Length: 1

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