News From the Field Emission Reduction Assumptions for Carbon Dioxide Overly Optimistic, Study Says
April 2, 2008
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Reducing global emissions of carbon dioxide over the coming century will be more challenging than society has been led to believe, according to a commentary in the journal Nature by a team of scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the University of Colorado and McGill University.
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Source National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
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