The cooling effects of atmospheric aerosols are much weaker than the warming from an enhanced greenhouse effect for all of the following reasons except:
A) aerosols such as sulfur haze typically remain in the atmosphere for about a year whereas greenhouse gases remain for hundreds of year
B) greenhouse gases help warm the planet 24 hours a day whereas sulfur haze cools the Earth only during the day when the sun is shining
C) there has been a concerted effort to increase sulfur emissions to counter the effects of the enhanced greenhouse effect but sulfur emissions are hard to produce
D) no exceptions - all of the statements are true
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