PMID- 17513272
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20070926
LR  - 20130424
IS  - 1364-503X (Print)
IS  - 1364-503X (Linking)
VI  - 365
IP  - 1856
DP  - 2007 Jul 15
TI  - Comparing the climate effect of emissions of short- and long-lived climate 
      agents.
PG  - 1903-14
AB  - Multi-gas climate agreements require a metric by which emissions of gases with 
      different lifetimes and radiative properties can be placed on a common scale. The 
      Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change uses 
      the global warming potential (GWP) as such a metric. The GWP has attracted 
      particular criticism as being inappropriate in the context of climate policy 
      which seeks to restrict warming below a given target, because it gives equal 
      weight to emissions irrespective of the target and the proximity to the target. 
      The use of an alternative metric, the time-dependent global temperature change 
      potential (GTP), is examined for its suitability and the prospects for it 
      including very short-lived species. It retains the transparency and relative ease 
      of use, which are attractive features of the GWP, but explicitly includes a 
      dependence on the target of climate policy. The weighting of emissions using the 
      GTP is found to be significantly dependent on the scenarios of future emissions 
      and the sensitivity of the climate system. This may indicate that the use of any 
      GTP-based weighting in future policymaking would necessitate regular revisions, 
      as the global-mean temperature moves towards a specified target.
FAU - Shine, Keith P
AU  - Shine KP
AD  - Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Earley Gate, Reading, UK. 
      k.p.shine@reading.ac.uk
FAU - Berntsen, Terje K
AU  - Berntsen TK
FAU - Fuglestvedt, Jan S
AU  - Fuglestvedt JS
FAU - Skeie, Ragnhild Bieltvedt
AU  - Skeie RB
FAU - Stuber, Nicola
AU  - Stuber N
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - England
TA  - Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci
JT  - Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering 
      sciences
JID - 101133385
SB  - IM
MH  - *Greenhouse Effect
MH  - *Models, Theoretical
MH  - *Public Policy
EDAT- 2007/05/22 09:00
MHDA- 2007/09/27 09:00
CRDT- 2007/05/22 09:00
PHST- 2007/05/22 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/09/27 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/05/22 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 4614657621795671 [pii]
AID - 10.1098/rsta.2007.2050 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2007 Jul 15;365(1856):1903-14. doi: 
      10.1098/rsta.2007.2050.