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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

A non-semiconductor question....

Not exactly my territory, but I have a question… In my local paper I came across an information about “….proposed greenhouse gas emissions targets before the U.N. climate change summit meeting in Copenhagen…”. Why the need to control greenhouse gases emission is always mentioned in the context of climate change? Shouldn’t we control emission of these gases because they polute the air we breath? Climate change, or not? The permanent connection between CO2 emission in particular,  and global warming (questioned by quite a few people, by the way) is blurring the picture with regard to this otherwise obvious need to control emission of gases which, unlike CO2, do not belong in the  Earth's atmosphere.

Posted by Jerzy Ruzyllo at 06:48 PM | Semiconductors | Comments (1) | Link



Jerzy Ruzyllo is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State and in his spare time he likes to blog about semiconductors and related topics.


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