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03-12-2009, 10:55 AM
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/2/AmericanFlag.jpg Termite-killer is powerful greenhouse gas -study (http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSSP437992)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Heat_a_Global_Frontline_Investigation.jpgDavid Fogarty - Reuters (http://www.reuters.com) - Mar. 12, 2009
Global warming isn’t just CO2, something even more damaging…17,200 times more damaging…--Ed
SINGAPORE, March 12 (Reuters) - A compound used to kill termites and other pests has turned out to be a potent greenhouse gas that stays in the atmosphere much longer than previously thought, an international team of scientists has found.
Sulfuryl fluroide (SO2F2) is nearly 5,000 times more effective at warming the atmosphere than an equal volume of carbon dioxide, scientists say.
The SO2F2 findings come just months after similar research found that another powerful greenhouse gas used in the electronics industry was more abundant than previously thought.
Sulfuryl fluoride is used to fumigate buildings and was created to replace methyl bromide, which attacks the Earth's ozone layer.
Study leader Jens Muehle, an atmospheric chemist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in La Jolla, California, said he started detecting an unknown compound in air samples in early 2004.
A team of researchers expanded the analysis to air samples routinely collected around the world at stations of the NASA-funded Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment network and to old air samples archived in metal cylinders.
They found that the gas… http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSSP437992
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Heat_a_Global_Frontline_Investigation.jpgDavid Fogarty - Reuters (http://www.reuters.com) - Mar. 12, 2009
Global warming isn’t just CO2, something even more damaging…17,200 times more damaging…--Ed
SINGAPORE, March 12 (Reuters) - A compound used to kill termites and other pests has turned out to be a potent greenhouse gas that stays in the atmosphere much longer than previously thought, an international team of scientists has found.
Sulfuryl fluroide (SO2F2) is nearly 5,000 times more effective at warming the atmosphere than an equal volume of carbon dioxide, scientists say.
The SO2F2 findings come just months after similar research found that another powerful greenhouse gas used in the electronics industry was more abundant than previously thought.
Sulfuryl fluoride is used to fumigate buildings and was created to replace methyl bromide, which attacks the Earth's ozone layer.
Study leader Jens Muehle, an atmospheric chemist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in La Jolla, California, said he started detecting an unknown compound in air samples in early 2004.
A team of researchers expanded the analysis to air samples routinely collected around the world at stations of the NASA-funded Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment network and to old air samples archived in metal cylinders.
They found that the gas… http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSSP437992