Perfluorotributylamine is an unregulated, long-living industrial chemical that breaks all records for potential climate impacts.
A new greenhouse gas that is 7,000 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the Earth has been discovered by researchers in Toronto. It is called perfluorotributylamine (PFTBA), does not occur naturally, and has been used by the electrical industry since the mid-20th century. Although its concentration in the atmosphere is very low, it is long-lived and large green reservoirs like forests and oceans are no known natural “sinks” on Earth to absorb it.
Their findings have been published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
