What does this sentence mean ? --Taw
Global warming potential is a measure of how much global warming a gas causes, relative to carbon dioxide. Unfortunately I don't understand all the technical details, but I think it means that a given mass of methane causes 22 times as much global warming as the same mass of carbon dioxide. -- SJK
What is measured ? How much warming is caused by the same volume of gase, the same weight of gas or by yearly emmision of gas ? --Taw
I believe it is how much a given mass of the gas warms the earth in a given period, compared to how much the same mass of CO2 warms the earth in the same period, but you'd have to check. -- SJK
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