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If we stopped emitting greenhouse gases right now, would we stop climate change?

  • Written by Richard B. Rood, Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan
imageBest-case scenario, how much are we locked into?Kletr/Shutterstock.com

Earth’s climate is changing rapidly. We know this from billions of observations, documented in thousands of journal papers and texts and summarized every few years by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The primary cause of that change is...

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