{"id":61,"date":"2008-10-28T12:03:54","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T19:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2008\/10\/28\/the-other-greenhouse-gases\/"},"modified":"2008-10-28T12:03:54","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T19:03:54","slug":"the-other-greenhouse-gases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2008\/10\/28\/the-other-greenhouse-gases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Greenhouse Gases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carbon dioxide is the 900-pound gorilla of greenhouse gases. There&#8217;s little doubt of that, whether you&#8217;re tracking news coverage or policy measures.<\/p>\n<p>But lately, some of the other beasts are getting more scrutiny. Reuters published a story last week that focused on <a title=\"Wiki NF3\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nitrogen_trifluoride\">nitrogen triflouride<\/a>, a by-product of semiconductor manufacturing and a key ingredient in <a title=\"Telegraph NF3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/main.jhtml?xml=\/earth\/2008\/07\/03\/eatv103.xml\">flat-screen TVs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at <a title=\"Scripps main\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sio.ucsd.edu\/\">Scripps Institution of Oceanography<\/a> in San Diego have been tracking the gas, which goes by the shorthand NF3, and concluded that the atmospheric load of the stuff is growing at 11% a year. What makes that a little scary is that NF3 is said to be 17,000 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas, though over all it&#8217;s still a much smaller factor in global warming.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, <a title=\"UCB Kirk Smith\" href=\"http:\/\/ehs.sph.berkeley.edu\/people\/smithk.htm\">Kirk Smith<\/a> of UC Berkeley is taking his show on the road, with a lecture he calls &#8220;CO2 on Steroids.&#8221; It&#8217;s about the role that methane plays in the warming equation and what he believes are the opportunities to make relatively fast headway against global warming by attacking methane emissions. Smith will present his findings at the state air board&#8217;s Chair&#8217;s <a title=\"ARB seminars\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arb.ca.gov\/research\/seminars\/seminars.htm\">seminar series<\/a> in Sacramento. You can watch a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calepa.ca.gov\/broadcast\/?bdo=1\">webcast of his lecture<\/a> on November 10.<\/p>\n<p>I interviewed Smith for an upcoming Climate Watch radio feature on the methane issue in California. Listen for it on <a title=\"TCR main\" href=\"http:\/\/www.californiareport.org\">The California Report<\/a> in mid-November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carbon dioxide is the 900-pound gorilla of greenhouse gases. There&#8217;s little doubt of that, whether you&#8217;re tracking news coverage or policy measures. But lately, some of the other &#8220;suspects&#8221; are getting more scrutiny. 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