The award winning Bengtsson, highly decorated by scientific bodies across the globe, also pointed out that the heating effect of carbon dioxide (CO2) is logarithmic, which means the higher the concentration is, the smaller the effect of a further increase.
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The Congressional Budget Office has just released a working paper evaluating the various ways that the effect of the carbon tax on low-income families might be offset.
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The social effect of reduced carbon emissions is enormously beneficial.
Adding wind power to the existing electric grid may not have the effect of reducing carbon emissions as much as expected, according to a new study published by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory.
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However, Australia's ABC national broadcaster says households are expected to see consumer prices - including food - rise by an average of 0.7% due to the effect of the carbon prices on large emitters.
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It said the gases had "very high global warming potentials compared to carbon dioxide", as an amount about 1g in weight could have the same effect as 1 ton of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere.
Some researchers, such as Paul Palmer at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland, think satellites could also monitor the effect of policies such as carbon trading to see if they can rein in emissions.
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British industry has managed largely to escape the effect of the new policy on carbon emissions, which involves a levy introduced last year and tradable quotas.
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The WMO data, meanwhile, confirms that atmospheric concentrations of the three gases principally responsible for the man-made component of the greenhouse effect - carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide - all rose during 2009.
And some researchers, such as Paul Palmer at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, think that satellites could also monitor the effect of policies, such as carbon trading, that are adopted to rein in emissions.
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Fossil fuel companies do not take into account the external effect of the cost of pollution or carbon emissions.
The U.S. federal government should implement policies that create market incentives to develop and deploy new energy technologies, including policies that have the effect of creating a substantial price on carbon emissions, and sector-specific policies to overcome other market failures.
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Just to take your own examples, who can tell what the effect on the carbon balance will be of protecting some rainforest in Bolivia?
Natural processes involving changes in the Sun could have at least as powerful an effect on global temperature as increased emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Most of it is, of course, radiated back into space. (It is the partial blocking of this radiation by gases such as carbon dioxide that causes the much-talked-of greenhouse effect.) Some of it, however, goes in the opposite direction, into the ground.
Thanks to the Kyoto treaty on climate change, which came into effect in February, most rich countries regulate emissions of carbon dioxide in some manner.
"If it is true that the mechanism is all about rays enhancing diffuse radiation, it would mean that 'global dimming' and 'global brightening' would have a big effect on tree growth and therefore on the absorption of carbon dioxide, " warns Ms Dengel.
Yet in order to have any significant effect on demand for low carbon energy technologies, the price of carbon would need to be higher than any political economy has been willing to bear.
Since both of these chemicals are more potent greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide, this effect, too, should help combat global warming.
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At the same time, there is a great deal of support in Washington for measures that would, in effect, subsidize high-carbon fuels.
The effect of these strengthened winds whipping across the sea surface is to bring deeper, more carbon-rich water up from below, thus reducing the surface layer's capacity to absorb more CO2 from the air.
Greenhouse effect: heating of the earth's atmosphere due to an increase in gases like carbon dioxide.
The Systems Biology Knowledgebase or KBase will allow scientists to predict the effect of microbes on their communities and if they can clean-up contaminated environments or sequester carbon on land, for example.
However, it is a good idea to conserve the global carbon stocks and not to squander it on electricity generation, which would have the side effect of reducing CO2 emissions.
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