CLIMATE CHANGE?
a phenomenon o urring in the atmosphere and aused by the apa ity of its
omponents to absorb or ree t the in oming solar radiation. This apa ity is
Atmospheri pollutants are widely varied, with natural origins as water va-
por, with anthropogeni origins as CH4 , N Ox , V OC ′ s (this last two produ ing
Ozone) and aerosols, or from a mixed origin (in part natural, in part anthro-
pogeni ) as CO2 . Aerosols have a dual ee t in Climate Change be ause the
absorbent ones rises planet's temperature while the s attering ones have the
lived pollutants (lifetime of years) as CH4 and aerosols, and there are Long-
lived ones (lifetime of enturies) asCO2 . This hara teristi s in lifetime imply
those pollutants.
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