Reducing soot can help w warming and human health

[Dr Martin Williams [account from Drupal site]]

From The Independent:

Quote:

Governments could slow global warming dramatically, and buy time to avert disastrous climate change, by slashing emissions of one of humanity’s most familiar pollutants – soot – according to Nasa scientists. A study by the space agency shows that cutting down on the pollutant, which has so far been largely ignored by climate scientists, can have an immediate cooling effect – and prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths from air pollution at the same time.

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Governments have long experience in acting against soot.

Cutting its emissions has a virtually instantaneous effect, because it rapidly falls out of the atmosphere, unlike carbon dioxide which remains there for over a hundred years. And because soot is one of the worst killers among all pollutants, radical reductions save lives and so should command popular and political support.

Soot reduction ‘could help to stop global warming’

 

[Anonymous]

Hi, i am completely agreed with you that by reducing soot we can reduce global warming which is affecting all the world right now.

[Editing: agreement good, spammy links not – Martin]

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