A Caution about Global Warming Potentials (GWPs)

Joint Program Policy Note
A Caution about Global Warming Potentials (GWPs)
Joint Program collective (1994)
MIT Joint Program Policy Note, Policy Note 1

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Abstract/Summary:

MIT economists and climate scientists explain the shortcomings of the Global Warming Potential, which is an index for comparing the effects of greenhouse gases and deciding climate policy.

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Joint Program collective (1994): A Caution about Global Warming Potentials (GWPs). MIT Joint Program Policy Note, Policy Note 1 (http://globalchange.mit.edu/publication/15520)
  • Joint Program Policy Note
A Caution about Global Warming Potentials (GWPs)

Joint Program collective

MIT Joint Program Policy Note
Policy Note 1

Abstract/Summary: 

MIT economists and climate scientists explain the shortcomings of the Global Warming Potential, which is an index for comparing the effects of greenhouse gases and deciding climate policy.

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