Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Anesthetics may be knocking out Earth's climate in addition to hospital patients

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Some of the most commonly-used anesthetics may be doing more than putting patients to sleep. A new study shows they are accumulating in the planet's atmosphere, warming the climate by a small but growing amount


The study, published online in March in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, found that while the contributions of most manmade airborne anesthetics are relatively small when compared to the warming effect of carbon dioxide and methane, which are two of the biggest manmade players in causing global warming, they are increasing the amount of heat trapped in the atmosphere.



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