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Aerosol Radiative Forcing and Climate Change Executive Summary
It has been more than a century since scientists first predicted
that changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere,
particularly increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide from
anthropogenic activities, might change the Earth's heat balance
and cause a warming of the atmosphere (Arrhenius, 1896). In
contrast, it i