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- noun Plural form of
halocarbon .
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Exotic trace compounds include methyl mercury, halocarbons (including CFCs), and halogen oxide radicals.
The BBC and global warming Not a sheep 2009
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Significant anthropogenic contributions to radiative forcing were also found to have come from several other sources, including tropospheric ozone changes due to emissions of ozone-forming chemicals, direct radiative forcing due to changes in halocarbons, and changes in surface albedo, due to land-cover changes and deposition of black carbon aerosols on snow.
Global warming 2010
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In the early 1970s, scientists began projecting that anthropogenic emissions of CFCs and other halocarbons would lead to stratospheric ozone depletion [1].
Long-term change and variability in ozone levels in the Arctic 2009
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Barrasso says EPA is not being honest about the costs of regulating carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone and halocarbons.
Todd Wilkinson: Does Sen. Barrasso of Wyoming Really Want Science to Guide Him? 2009
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The net warming from CH4, N2O, and halocarbons is about two-thirds of the warming from CO2 by itself.
Bill Chameides: Climate Change: What Is Equivalent to 'CO2 Equivalents'? 2009
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The starting point for this theory was their discovery in the south of Russia and South Africa that microbial processes in present-day salt lakes produce and emit highly volatile halocarbons.
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Decline in the tropospheric abundance of halogen from halocarbons: implications for stratospheric ozone depletion.
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The starting point for this theory was their discovery in the south of Russia and South Africa that microbial processes in present-day salt lakes produce and emit highly volatile halocarbons.
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Do you want to know the relative impact of CO2, methane, halocarbons, and nitrous oxide in creating global warming?
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Urban and industrial areas are also major sources of the greenhouse gases, including CO2, CH4, N2O and halocarbons.
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