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Published online 24 October 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1189
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Potent greenhouse gas overlooked
Rising levels of nitrogen trifluoride, used to make plasma TVs, have been found in the atmosphere.
A rare but extremely potent greenhouse gas used in the electronics industry is at least four times more abundant in the atmosphere than previously thought, scientists have found. To better control its use, nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) should be added to the list of gases regulated under future climate-change agreements, they recommend.
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By far the most potent Greenhouse gases - IR absorption intensity and location in formerly transparent atmospheric spectral windows - are hydrochlorofluorocarbons and hydrofluorocarbons. Cut the Enviro-whiner crap and return to Freons as safe, effective, and inexpensive refrigeration working fluids. International Geophysical Year 1957-8, political scenarists of the Kyoto conference, and two decades of heinous engineering and economic trespass - same Ozone Hole numbers. NF3 is Luddite maunder to expensively worry another gobbet out of First World civilization.