POTSDAM, January 27 (WNM/Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies/Bianca Schröder) - It is common practice in climate policy to bundle the climate warming pollutants together and express their total effects in terms of "CO2 equivalence". This 'equivalence' is based on a comparison of climate effects on a 100-year timescale. This approach is problematic, as IASS scientist Kathleen Mar explains in a new research paper: "The fact is that climate forcers simply aren't 'equivalent' - their ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...