Greenhouse gas-caused warming felt in just months

Greenhouse gas-caused warming felt in just months
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 09, 2015 - The heat generated by burning a fossil fuel is surpassed within a few months by the warming caused by the release of its carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to new work from Carnegie's Xiaochun Zhang and Ken Caldeira published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. The release of CO2 into the atmosphere contributes to the trapping of heat that wou ... morehttp://www.terradaily.com/reports/Greenhouse_gas_caused_warming_felt_in_just_months_999.html