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Posted Wed Oct 9 2013: from E&E Publishing:
Benefits of curbing GHGs could take a generation to detect -- study http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1381357158
If the countries of the world reduced their greenhouse gas emissions today enough to keep the world from warming more than 2 degrees Celsius, when would they be able to tell that these efforts had succeeded? That's the basic question posed in a paper released yesterday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The answer: about 25 to 30 years, at least where global temperatures are concerned. On a regional level, it may take even longer to see the changes, the paper states.
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