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For First Time in Nature Scientists Measure Heat-Trapping Effects of CO2
2015-02-26 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Scientists have long understood how carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere and contributes to global warming, but the phenomenon had not been directly documented at the earth's surface outside of a laboratory until now. Writing in the journal Nature, researchers present 11 years of field data on carbon dioxide's capacity to absorb thermal radiation emitted from the surface of the earth. The results agree with theoretical predictions of the greenhouse effect associated with fossil fuel combustion,...
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