Climate Change, page-160

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    If a tap is filling a bath, temporarily turning down the tap doesn't reduce the amount of water in the bath. It just slows its increase.

    Similarly, a slowdown in new greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 isn't going to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations already in the atmosphere.
 
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