Emissions of Potent Greenhouse Gas Increase Despite Reduction Efforts
By | Published: January 31, 2010
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;ScienceDaily: Despite a decade of efforts worldwide to curb its release into the atmosphere, NOAA and university scientists have measured increased emissions of a greenhouse gas that is thousands of times more efficient at trapping heat than carbon dioxide and persists in the atmosphere for nearly 300 years. The substance HFC-23, or trifluoromethane, is a byproduct of chlorodifluoromethane, or HCFC-22, a refrigerant in air conditioners and refrigerators and a starting material for producing heat …
Emissions of Potent Greenhouse Gas Increase Despite Reduction Efforts
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;ScienceDaily: Despite a decade of efforts worldwide to curb its release into the atmosphere, NOAA and university scientists have measured increased emissions of a greenhouse gas that is thousands of times more efficient at trapping heat than carbon dioxide and persists in the atmosphere for nearly 300 years. The substance HFC-23, or trifluoromethane, is a byproduct of chlorodifluoromethane, or HCFC-22, a refrigerant in air conditioners and refrigerators and a starting material for producing heat …
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