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39 Post author: ChrisHallquist 26 October 2013 01:59PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 October 2013 09:07:16AM 0 points [-]

The current understanding of climate sensitivity is that since Carbon Dioxide gas will remain in the upper atmosphere for decades (and possibly centuries) even a complete halt on emissions will not avert warming predicted for the next century or so.

Methane has a shorter lifetime, though (though my five minutes' research tells me we've already stopped increasing methane emissions).