New use of global warming potentials to compare cumulative and short-lived climate pollutants

Myles R. Allen (), Jan S. Fuglestvedt, Keith P. Shine, Andy Reisinger, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert and Piers M. Forster
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Myles R. Allen: Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Jan S. Fuglestvedt: Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo (CICERO)
Keith P. Shine: University of Reading
Andy Reisinger: New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre
Raymond T. Pierrehumbert: University of Oxford
Piers M. Forster: School of Earth and Environment, Maths/Earth and Environment Building, The University of Leeds

Nature Climate Change, 2016, vol. 6, issue 8, 773-776

Abstract: This study presents a new use of a widely used metric known as the global warming potential (GWP) to compare the impact of cumulative climate pollutants such as CO2 versus short-lived climate pollutants, such as methane and black carbon.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2998

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