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    Global Warming Potential (GWP) is an index to measure how much infrared thermal radiation a greenhouse gas would absorb over a given time frame after it...
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    In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system...
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  • minimize emissions. Due to Fluorinert's high global warming potential, alternative low global warming potential agents were found and sold under the brand...
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    would occur once every ten years before global warming started now occurs 2.8 times as often. Under further warming, heatwaves are set to become more frequent...
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    methane emissions have a significant contribution to warming due to the high global warming potential of methane. At the same time, methane also acts as...
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  • Life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of energy sources (category Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2020)
    in units of global warming potential per unit of electrical energy generated by that source. The scale uses the global warming potential unit, the carbon...
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    result in global warming of about 2.7 °C by 2100. This warming is significantly above the 2015 Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to well...
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    to chlorofluorocarbons, it has an ozone depletion potential of zero, a lower global warming potential (124) and a shorter atmospheric lifetime (1.4 years)...
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    three-quarters of global warming and can take thousands of years to be fully absorbed by the carbon cycle. Methane causes most of the remaining warming and lasts...
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    led to increases in mean global temperature, or global warming. The likely range of human-induced surface-level air warming by 2010–2019 compared to levels...
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  • essentially zero. ODP is often used in conjunction with a compound's global warming potential (GWP) as a measure of how environmentally detrimental it can be...
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  • The list of climate change controversies (or list of global warming controversies) concerns past or present public debates over certain aspects of climate...
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    Desflurane (category Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2005)
    intracranial pressure. Desflurane is a greenhouse gas. The twenty-year global-warming potential, GWP(20), for desflurane is 3714, meaning that one tonne of desflurane...
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  • Refrigerants are typically evaluated on both their global warming potential (GWP) and ozone depletion potential (ODP). The GWP scale is standardized to carbon...
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    generic drug. Sevoflurane is a greenhouse gas. The twenty-year global-warming potential, GWP(20), for sevoflurane is 349. Sevoflurane will degrade into...
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  • and consumption of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). HFCs have a high global warming potential and contribute to climate change. Rules developed under the AIM...
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  • list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to climate change, global warming, and related topics. 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V...
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    countries in 2020 due to the compound's ozone depletion potential (ODP) and high global warming potential (GWP), and in developing countries this process will...
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    refrigerants with a global warming potential (GWP) of more than 150 in automotive air conditioning (GWP = 100-year warming potential of one kilogram of...
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    refrigerants are categorized as having zero ozone depletion potential (ODP) and low global warming potential (GWP) and so offer a more environmentally friendly...
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  • 3-tetrafluoropropene (R-1234yf), a hydrofluoroolefin. Because of its reduced global warming potential (GWP), R-454B is intended to be an alternative to refrigerant R-410A...
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    has a global warming potential of 2310 compared to carbon dioxide. Quite short-lived halogenated compounds can still have fairly high global warming potentials:...
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  • (dichlorodifluoromethane) but with insignificant ozone depletion potential and a lower 100-year global warming potential (1,430, compared to R-12's GWP of 10,900). It has...
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    its high global warming potential (GWP). HFO-1234ze(E) itself has zero ozone-depletion potential (ODP=0), a very low global warming potential (GWP < 1...
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    gases with global-warming potentials 100 to 23,500 times that of carbon dioxide, and SF6 has the highest global warming potential of any known substance...
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  • The Great Global Warming Swindle is a 2007 British polemical documentary film directed by Martin Durkin. The film denies the scientific consensus about...
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    Kingdom would have a global warming potential "broadly similar" to that of conventional North Sea gas, although shale gas has the potential to be higher if...
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  • cutting-edge cooling technology that offers high efficiency and zero global warming potential. This novel cycle utilizes the ionocaloric effect, which is driven...
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    of global warming potential, they still constitute far lower carbon emissions than non-renewable energy sources which have global warming potentials ranging...
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  • voltage switchgear. As they are greenhouse gases with a strong global warming potential, their use is regulated. The most common F-gases are hydrofluorocarbons...
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