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Rethinking how to measure methane's climate impact

Source
Phys.org

Publication Date
2022-02-09

Like boxers whose punching power declines over their careers, greenhouse gasses lose their warming impact at different rates. So, to compare gasses' climate changing potential to the most common greenhouse gas—carbon dioxide—international negotiators often use a metric that measures their influence on global warming over a 100-year timeframe.

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https://phys.org/news/2022-02-rethinking-methane-climate-impact.html