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Review of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program's Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.2, "Climate Projections Based on Emission Scenarios for Long-lived and Short-lived Radiatively Active Gases and Aerosols" (2007) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 5-8

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From page 5...
... Understanding the impact of short-lived radiatively active species on future climate is critical and recently has become an active area of research in the reviewed literature. These types of studies encompass a realistic time frame over which available technological solutions can be employed, and focuses on those gas and aerosol species whose future atmospheric levels are also subject to mitigation to control air pollution.
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From page 6...
... A concise and readable summary of the document, including key findings and recommendations, would enable all audiences -- producers of synthesis and assessment products, scientific researchers, decision-makers, media, and the general public -- to glean the main points and to locate further information that may be of interest to them. The document should include a short executive summary for a non-technical reader, such as congressional staff, local and regional governmental decision makers.
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From page 7...
... • A discussion explaining the coupling between climate effects of long and short-lived species is needed in the introduction. A reader with less technical background might wonder specifically about the relationship between the predictions for the well-mixed greenhouse gas scenarios and the predictions where these are combined with the short-lived species.
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From page 8...
... For example, it is not entirely clear that the pattern of temperature response to short-lived species is of similar magnitude and distribution as the pattern of long-lived species. A graphic comparison of the temperature response to short-lived species vs the response to long-lived species should be presented.
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