Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Anesthetic Gases Heat Climate as Much as One Million Cars Do, New Research Shows

From the ScienceDaily.com website: "When doctors want their patients asleep during surgery, they gently turn the gas tap. But anesthetic gasses have a global warming potential as high as a refrigerant that is on its way to be banned in the European Union. Yet there is no obligation to report anesthetic gasses along with other greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide, refrigerants and laughing gas."

Read the full article here:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101203081644.htm

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