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Cutting Non-CO2 Pollutants Can Delay Abrupt Climate Change; The Fast Action Climate Agenda

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Shown are the tipping elements [large-scale components of the Earth’s system] and the temperature threshold range that initiates the tipping. This would mean that the climate system is close to entering if not already within the zone of “dangerous anthropogenic interference” (DAI). From Molina et al. Earlier post.)

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Indo-US task force to study HFC phase-down

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The global warming potentials (GWP) of HFCs range from 140 (HFC-152a) to 11,700 (HFC-23), according to the US EPA. HFCs are chemicals are potential substitutes for ozone-depleting and climate-warming CFCs and HCFCs currently being phased out under the Montreal Protocol treaty to protect the ozone layer.