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. 2025 Jul 15;80(8):500-503.
doi: 10.1136/thorax-2025-223195.

Green respiratory healthcare: what really matters

Gary Connett  1 , Mary Slingo  2 , Ian Sinha  3   4 , Dame Julia Slingo  5
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Green respiratory healthcare: what really matters

Gary Connett et al. Thorax. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Asthma; Asthma Guidelines; Asthma Pharmacology; COPD Pharmacology.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1. Change in effective radiative forcing (ERF) and surface temperature change from 1750 to 2019 by contributing forcing agents. Note the scale of the uncertainty in the radiative forcing and surface temperature change. CH4, Methane; N20, Nitrous Oxide. Reproduced from figures 7.6 and 7.7 in chapter 7: The physical science basis. Contribution of working group I to the sixth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, doi: 10.1017/9781009157896.008.
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