Sentences with phrase «very high global warming potentials»

Many fluorinated gases have very high global warming potentials (GWPs) relative to other greenhouse gases, so small atmospheric concentrations can have proportionately large effects on global temperatures.

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In very short form (recognizing that I will write somewhat loosely for purposes of brevity in this setting), Weitzman's central claim is that the probability distribution of potential losses from global warming is «fat - tailed», or includes high enough odds of very large amounts of warming (200C or more) to justify taking expensive action now to avoid these low probability / high severity risks.
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