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Atmospheric Lifetime and Global Warming Potential of a Perfluoropolyether

Environmental Science & Technology, 2006
Perfluoropolyethers (PFPEs) are a family of perfluorinated fluids used mainly in industrial applications. Lower molecular weight commercial PFPE fractions have boiling points ranging between 55 and 270 degrees C, and have the potential to escape into the atmosphere.
Cora J, Young, Michael D, Hurley, Timothy J, Wallington, Scott A, Mabury   +3 more
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Global Warming Potential of Inhaled Anesthetics

Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2010
Inhaled anesthetics are recognized greenhouse gases. Calculating their relative impact during common clinical usage will allow comparison to each other and to carbon dioxide emissions in general.We determined infrared absorption cross-sections for sevoflurane and isoflurane.
Susan M, Ryan, Claus J, Nielsen
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The potential of the ocean for the management of global warming

International Journal of Global Warming, 2009
The ocean represents a potential opportunity to store carbon dioxide from fossil fuel away from the atmosphere. Three carbon sequestration strategies are reviewed and the technical, legal and ethical issues that would follow from their widespread adoption are examined.
Ian S.F. Jones, Helen E. Young
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Global Warming Potential Is Not an Ecosystem Property

Ecosystems, 2021
Greenhouse gas metrics and ecosystem greenhouse gas fluxes should not be confounded with each other, either conceptually or in the language that we use to describe them. The global warming potential (GWP) and sustained-flux global warming potential (SGWP) are metrics that describe the relative radiative impact of different greenhouse gases and have ...
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Global Warming Potentials: 2. Accuracy

Climatic Change, 2000
This paper exposes flaws in the mathematical structure of the Global Warming Potential (GWP) concept. These lead to errors when emissions changes in different greenhouse gases are compared. The most fundamental problem is that the unit impulse response functions from which GWPs, and many of their proposed alternatives, are constructed provide an ...
Steven J. Smith, T. M. L. Wigley
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Global warming mitigation potential of biogas plants in India

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2008
Biogas technology, besides supplying energy and manure, provides an excellent opportunity for mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission and reducing global warming through substituting firewood for cooking, kerosene for lighting and cooking and chemical fertilizers. A study was undertaken to calculate (1) global warming mitigation potential (GMP) and
H, Pathak, N, Jain, A, Bhatia, S, Mohanty, Navindu, Gupta   +4 more
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Potential Effect of Global Warming on Mosquito-Borne Arboviruses

Journal of Medical Entomology, 1994
If global warming occurs in California, daily mean temperatures may increase by 3 to 5 degrees C, precipitation patterns will change, and sea level may rise 1 m. Studies were done on effect of temperature changes on survival of Culex tarsalis Coquillett, the primary vector of western equine encephalomyelitis (WEE) and St.
W C, Reeves, J L, Hardy, W K, Reisen, M M, Milby   +3 more
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Estimation of Radiative Efficiency of Chemicals with Potentially Significant Global Warming Potential

Environmental Science & Technology, 2015
Halogenated chemical substances are used in a broad array of applications, and new chemical substances are continually being developed and introduced into commerce. While recent research has considerably increased our understanding of the global warming potentials (GWPs) of multiple individual chemical substances, this research inevitably lags behind ...
Don, Betowski, Charles, Bevington, Thomas C, Allison   +2 more
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Global Warming Potential and the Net Carbon Balance

2008
This article presents two different approaches for the study of the role of carbon as a fundamental resource for life on Earth. The article is composed of two parts, the first devoted to the description of global warming potential (GWP), a conventional standard index introduced in the early 1990s.
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A guide to global warming potentials (GWPs)

Energy Policy, 1993
Abstract In order to quantitatively compare the greenhouse effect of different greenhouse gases a global warming potential (GWP) index has been used which is based on the ratio of the radiative forcing of an equal emission of two different gases, integrated either over all time or up to an arbitrarily determined time horizon.
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