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Limiting Global Cooling after Global Warming is Over — Differentiating Between Short‐ and Long‐Lived Greenhouse Gases

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  • Axel Michaelowa

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Current climate policy does not take into account that, after greenhouse gas emissions have been reduced to an extent that atmospheric concentrations stabilise and then start to fall, natural decay of greenhouse gases will lead to a global cooling phase spanning several centuries. This cooling will lead to damage to humans and ecosystems that depends on the rate of temperature change. Current climate policy should thus concentrate on the reduction of short‐ and medium‐lived greenhouse gases, while exempting long‐lived gases. This reduces the cooling rate. Another policy option is to sequester carbon in geological reservoirs that allow controlled release in the future.

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  • Axel Michaelowa, 2003. "Limiting Global Cooling after Global Warming is Over — Differentiating Between Short‐ and Long‐Lived Greenhouse Gases," OPEC Energy Review, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, vol. 27(4), pages 343-351, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:opecrv:v:27:y:2003:i:4:p:343-351
    DOI: 10.1111/j.0277-0180.2003.00075.x
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    1. Michael Dutschke, 2007. "CDM Forestry and the Ultimate Objective of the Climate Convention," Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Springer, vol. 12(2), pages 275-302, February.

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