Increased solar radiation requires an extra reduction in CO2 emissions

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 08:42 in Physics & Chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- The recently observed reduction in air pollution implies that more solar radiation reaches the Earth's surface. This could lead to a far more rapid increase in the Earth's temperature in the coming decades. These are the claims of econometricians Jan Magnus, Bertrand Melenberg, and Chris Muris from Tilburg University (The Netherlands) based on unique solar radiation data collected from weather stations between 1959 and 2002.

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