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...

Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate. Climate...

minimize emissions. Due to Fluorinert's high global warming potential, alternative low global warming potential agents were found and sold under the brand...

emissions. But this depends on the time frame used to calculate the global warming potential of the respective gas. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are measured...

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...

to chlorofluorocarbons, it has an ozone depletion potential of zero, a lower global warming potential (124) and a shorter atmospheric lifetime (1.4 years)...

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...

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...

regions and up to 3% by mass in saturated air at about 32 °C. Global warming potential (GWP) is an index to measure how much infrared thermal radiation...

'The best estimate of the human-induced contribution to warming is similar to the observed warming over this period.'" (PDF). Archived from the original...

hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). The AIM act was passed because HFCs have high global warming potential. Rules developed under the AIM Act require HFC production and consumption...

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...

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...

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...

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...

humans, its effects on nature and human society, and the potential of adaptation to global warming by human actions.: 170–173  To a lesser extent, climate...

Refrigerants are typically evaluated on both their global warming potential (GWP) and ozone depletion potential (ODP). The GWP scale is standardized to carbon...

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...

the 1990s and 2000s. HFCs were not ozone-depleting but did have global warming potentials (GWPs) thousands of times greater than CO2 with atmospheric lifetimes...

(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...

generic drug. Sevoflurane is a greenhouse gas. The twenty-year global-warming potential, GWP(20), for sevoflurane is 349, however this is significantly...

refrigerants are categorized as having zero ozone depletion potential (ODP) and low global warming potential (GWP) and so offer a more environmentally friendly...

attributed "the abnormally hot weather plaguing our nation" to global warming. Global warming in the U.S. gained more attention after the release of the 2006...

has a global warming potential of 2310 compared to carbon dioxide. Quite short-lived halogenated compounds can still have fairly high global warming potentials:...

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...

of global warming potential, they still constitute far lower carbon emissions than non-renewable energy sources which have global warming potentials ranging...

cutting-edge cooling technology that offers high efficiency and zero global warming potential. This novel cycle utilizes the ionocaloric effect, which is driven...

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...

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...

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...