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TV boom may boost greenhouse effect [1]

AN INDUSTRIAL chemical being used in ever larger quantities to make flat-screen TVs may be making global warming worse. However, because it's not covered by the Kyoto protocol, nobody knows by how much. The gas was first introduced as a measure to cut greenhouse gas emissions, but a prominent atmospheric chemist this week warned it could now be having the opposite effect.

Publication Date: 
02/07/2008
Fred Pearce [2]
New Scientist [3]
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Climate Change [4], Green House Gases [5], Kyoto Protocol [6], TV [7]
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