Articles related to "Global Warming Potential"

With all this talk about climate change and global warming, it's important to understand the key scientific concepts behing GWP and the Greenhouse Effect.

Although carbon dioxide is the largest agent of global warming, there are other greenhouse gases. Methane, nitrous oxide and fluorocarbons all add to climate change.

Nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) and sulfuryl fluoride (SO2F2), powerful greenhouse gases used in industrial processes, have been shown to be growing quickly in the atmosphere.

Methane is a more powerful global warming agent than CO2. In addition to man-made methane levels, rising levels of CO2 could release vast amounts of natural methane.