Talk:Global warming potential
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Vicki, the global warming potential of carbon dioxide is disputed. It depends on the hypothetical positive-feedback advocated by the IPCC. --Ed
Disputed by whom? This is pretty standard science--it's why Venus is so hot, for example.
Also, it's difficult to fix real, undisputed errors--like the fact that whoever created the page can't spell "hydrofluorocarbon"--in the midst of this argument. Could you maybe take a moment to look at spelling and grammar, if you're going to dive in and revert my edits? Vicki Rosenzweig
Vicki, I'm trying to distinguish between the "greenhouse effect", the substantial and undisputed phenomena that keeps the earth warm enough to sustain human life -- and the "greenhouse theory" (for lack of a better term) (global warming or anthropogenic global warming -- SEWilco), the hypothesis that excessive emissions will cause a runaway greenhouse effect leading to a harmful warming.
I think the term "global warming potential" describes not (a) how much a gas contributes to the greenhouse effect but (b) how much it is estimated to contribute to the hypothesized scenario of a runaway greenhouse effect. The problem is that the terms are often not clearly defined.
Please continue to help out, and I'm sorry if I reverted your edit unjustifiably. Feel free to re-revert. And thanks for adding the immigration thing to Unification Church. Ed Poor
- Can you find the IPCC definition of GWP which seems to be unclear? ipcc.ch/Publications -- SEWilco
- You want the radiative forcing chapter of course: http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/247.htm
What is the GWP of water vapor? About 26.26? SEWilco
(William M. Connolley 19:12, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)) Probably very very small, because GWP is not the total effect of the gas but some function, per molecule, of effect times lifetime, and H2O lifetime is short and the effect probably small (because of saturation). But I've never seen it explicitly calculated - perhaps because its not of much interest.
Who defines GWP?
(William M. Connolley 09:16, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)) The article currently says that the IPCC are the authors of the definition of GWP. I'm not sure that is true, though it might be. Previously the article said that the defintion of GWP could be found in the IPCC report.