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It looks as though those numbers are mistaken. https://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/02/26/ghg_lifetimes/ https://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/02/26/ghg_lifet
by malloryerik 5y ago
It looks as though those numbers are mistaken.
https://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/02/26/ghg_lifetimes/ https://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/02/26/ghg_lifetimes/
- gpt5 5y agoThis article seems to conflate "Time it takes for 50% of the CO2 increase to be removed from the atmosphere" with "time it takes a specific molecule that was released to the atmosphere to be removed". The former is more relevant to the discussion, and is stated as ~30 years.