CO2, Methane Ousted as Worst Global Climate Change Chemicals

November 19th, 2009 admin

Move over CO2—you’ve been ousted, along with methane, as the biggest offenders of global climate change . According to a new a study by Purdue University and NASA, the major chemicals most frequently cited as leading to climate change, namely carbon dioxide and methane , are actually outclassed in their warming potential by compounds receiving less attention. The majority of “greenhouse gases” are created by humans . The results were discovered when researchers studied more than a dozen chemicals, or greenhouse gases as classified by their warming properties defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. From there, the team developed a blueprint for the underlying molecular machinery of global warming. The results appeared in the November 12, 2009 issue of the American Chemical Society’s Journal of Physical Chemistry , just in time for the convergence of world leaders in Copenhagen…


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