If human-caused CO2 emissions were completely halted today, how long would it take for significant temperature drop to occur in the upper atmosphere?

a. ten to twenty years
b. twenty to fifty years
c. fifty to one hundred years
d. one hundred to one hundred fifty years
e. at least one thousand years


ANSWER: e

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