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The contribution of China’s emissions to global climate forcing [1]

Using a global coupled biogeochemistry–climate model and a chemistry and transport model reveals that China’s present-day global radiative forcing is about ten per cent of the current global total, made up of both warming and cooling contributions; if in the future China reduces the cooling forcings, global warming could accelerate.

Publication Date: 
17/03/2016
Bengang Li [2], Thomas Gasser [3], Philippe Ciais & et al [4]
Nature [5]
531
357–361
Tags:
Climate Change [6], China [7], Climate Science [8], Green House Gases [9], Black Carbon [10], Aerosols [11]
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