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  • noun Plural form of forcer.

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Examples

  • CO2 is the major contributor to climate change, but climate forcers such as black carbon, ozone and fluorinated gases f-gases can offer dramatic reductions in temperature increases -- and provide us with swift results.

    James Thornton: F-Gases: An Essential Landmark for Europe's Low-Carbon Roadmap James Thornton 2011

  • The good news is that tackling black carbon, and other so-called "short-lived climate forcers" such as methane, could be a quick win in terms of tackling climate change.

    Wood fires fuel climate change – UN 2011

  • CO2 is the major contributor to climate change, but climate forcers such as black carbon, ozone and fluorinated gases f-gases can offer dramatic reductions in temperature increases -- and provide us with swift results.

    James Thornton: F-Gases: An Essential Landmark for Europe's Low-Carbon Roadmap James Thornton 2011

  • At least half of the barriers to effective action on simple stuff -- including forests, but also technology transfer and action on short-term climate forcers like the hydrogen gasses or methane or black carbon -- involve broader issues of international trust and control, not the dollars and sense of a cleaner global economy.

    Carl Pope: What to Make of Cancún? Carl Pope 2010

  • At least half of the barriers to effective action on simple stuff -- including forests, but also technology transfer and action on short-term climate forcers like the hydrogen gasses or methane or black carbon -- involve broader issues of international trust and control, not the dollars and sense of a cleaner global economy.

    Carl Pope: What to Make of Cancún? Carl Pope 2010

  • At least half of the barriers to effective action on simple stuff -- including forests, but also technology transfer and action on short-term climate forcers like the hydrogen gasses or methane or black carbon -- involve broader issues of international trust and control, not the dollars and sense of a cleaner global economy.

    Carl Pope: What to Make of Cancún? Carl Pope 2010

  • At least half of the barriers to effective action on simple stuff -- including forests, but also technology transfer and action on short-term climate forcers like the hydrogen gasses or methane or black carbon -- involve broader issues of international trust and control, not the dollars and sense of a cleaner global economy.

    Carl Pope: What to Make of Cancún? Carl Pope 2010

  • A serious effort to curb the short-term climate forcers -- methane, black carbon (soot), and the so-called H gases -- is one.

    Carl Pope: Lessons From Denmark 2009

  • The colonization of the Americas, for example, by the Chinese, in the absence of Europeans fails because a Japanese sailor arrives ahead of the Chinese and convinces the Native American tribes to join forcers to withstand the threat.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Bruce Schauble 2008

  • The colonization of the Americas, for example, by the Chinese, in the absence of Europeans fails because a Japanese sailor arrives ahead of the Chinese and convinces the Native American tribes to join forcers to withstand the threat.

    Immersed Bruce Schauble 2008

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