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Black carbon climate danger ‘underestimated’

April 4, 2008 – 2:26 am

From SciDev.Net
by Naomi Antony
3 April 2008

Biomass stoves contribute
to black carbon emissions
Flickr/Eileen Delhi

Black carbon, a key component of soot, plays a much larger role in global warming than previously estimated, scientists have found.
They cite black carbon as the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide.
“We’ve got one more thing to worry about,” says Veerabhadran [...]

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Brown haze ‘heating up’ South Asia

August 10, 2007 – 6:13 am

Maryke Steffens
7 August 2007
Source: SciDev.Net

Lead researcher,
Veerabhadran Ramanathan,
with unmanned aircraft

Brown clouds of pollution that stretch over the Indian Ocean during the dry season are warming the climate just as much as greenhouse gases, say scientists.
According to a study, published last week (2 August) in the journal Nature, these ‘atmospheric brown clouds’ could be directly responsible for [...]

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