Climate lag

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The delay that occurs in climate change as a result of some factor that changes only very slowly. For example, the effects of releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere may not be known for some time because a large fraction is dissolved in the ocean and only released to the atmosphere many years later. See climate, climate change. (source: EPA)

Solving the Climate Crisis - Oct 14, 2007
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies,Climate scientists generally describe this climate lag as being around 20-30 years—so, even if we were to cut off all additional carbon emissions right this

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