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SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

1 from shipping in 2007, corresponding to 3.3% 1 of the total ship emissions in 2007. In addition to CO 2 , other compounds such as ozone (O 3 ) precursors (nitrogen oxides (NO x =NO+NO 2 ), carbon monoxide (CO), and volatile organic compounds (VOCs)) and aerosols such as black carbon (BC) and organic carbon (OC) are emitted by ships.

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JULY 29, 2010

Jacobson at Stanford University. 1990; Anisimov, 2007] and chemical production of ozone in already-polluted locations [Jacobson, 2008b]. These three gases are all greenhouse gases, and ozone is a surface air pollutant. Dessler et al., 2008] and methane [Schutz et al., Guenther et al., 1995] and NO.

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MAY 18, 2009

In 2007, Jacobson and four colleagues testified in the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the role of black carbon. A recent paper by a pair of researchers from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space (GISS) and Columbia University also found that black carbon is responsible for 50% of the total 1.9 °C Earlier post.).

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