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Soot Pollution - the Number Two Contributor to Climate Change?
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Soot is defined as the particulate matter released by the burning of fossil fuels, mainly coal. It is often a black substance that is deemed harmful because the dark particles cause warming by absorbing heat in the air. On a grand scale, black carbon also quickens the melting of glaciers. It is now listed as the number two human contributor to climate change.[read more]
What’s Soot Got To Do With It?
By Andrew Freedman Most of the discussion regarding the highly anticipated Senate energy and climate change legislation, which Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduced last week following months of negotiations, has focused on the bill’s provisions pertaining to offshore oil and gas drilling, incentives...[read more]
SOS from the Copenhagen, Sir
Subtitle: Save Our Soot… Why, what did you think it meant? This blog previously noted a concise explanation of global and regional climate changes due to black carbon: 40% of soot comes from power sources, mainly coal and oil. Quickly reducing soot could have substantial short-term effects on the rate of climate change. Such reduction...[read more]
Flight Suit Boy Solutions
We desperately need implementation of carbon free technologies for power generation and transportation, if we want somehow to mitigate destruction of life on the planet as we know it. For instance, 40% of soot comes from power sources, mainly coal and oil. Quickly reducing soot could have substantial short-term effects on the rate of...[read more]
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