Short-Lived Climate Forcers (Chapter 6)

S Szopa, V Naik, B Adhikary, P Artaxo, T Berntsen… - 2021 - cambridge.org
Short‑lived climate forcers (SLCFs) affect climate and are, in most cases, also air pollutants.
They include aerosols (sulphate, nitrate, ammonium, carbonaceous aerosols, mineral dust …

Short-lived climate pollution

RT Pierrehumbert - Annual review of earth and planetary …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Although carbon dioxide emissions are by far the most important mediator of anthropogenic
climate disruption, a number of shorter-lived substances with atmospheric lifetimes of under …

Disentangling the effects of CO2 and short-lived climate forcer mitigation

J Rogelj, M Schaeffer… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Anthropogenic global warming is driven by emissions of a wide variety of radiative forcers
ranging from very short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs), like black carbon, to very long-lived …

Indicate separate contributions of long-lived and short-lived greenhouse gases in emission targets

MR Allen, GP Peters, KP Shine, C Azar… - NPJ climate and …, 2022 - nature.com
As researchers who have published over recent years on the issue of comparing the climate
effects of different greenhouse gases, we would like to highlight a simple innovation that …

The role of short-lived climate pollutants in meeting temperature goals

NHA Bowerman, DJ Frame, C Huntingford… - Nature Climate …, 2013 - nature.com
Some recent high-profile publications have suggested that immediately reducing emissions
of methane, black carbon and other short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) may contribute …

Global environmental implications of atmospheric methane removal through chlorine-mediated chemistry-climate interactions

Q Li, D Meidan, P Hess, JA Añel, CA Cuevas… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Atmospheric methane is both a potent greenhouse gas and photochemically active, with
approximately equal anthropogenic and natural sources. The addition of chlorine to the …

The role of HFCs in mitigating 21st century climate change

Y Xu, D Zaelke, GJM Velders… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2013 - acp.copernicus.org
There is growing international interest in mitigating climate change during the early part of
this century by reducing emissions of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), in addition to …

What role for short-lived climate pollutants in mitigation policy?

JK Shoemaker, DP Schrag, MJ Molina, V Ramanathan - Science, 2013 - science.org
Short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) include methane (CH4), black carbon (BC),
tropospheric ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). They are important contributors to …

Climate effects of atmospheric methane

J Lelieveld, PJ Crutzen, C Brühl - Chemosphere, 1993 - Elsevier
We discuss the role of the concentration increase of atmospheric CH 4 (currently≈ 0.8% yr−
1) in climate change, including effects through chemical feedbacks, notably through …

How difficult is it to recover from dangerous levels of global warming?

JA Lowe, C Huntingford, SCB Raper… - Environmental …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Climate models provide compelling evidence that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at
present rates, then key global temperature thresholds (such as the European Union limit of …