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Climate Impact of Soot Is Exaggerated, Study Says

2014-09-27 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The global warming effect of 'black carbon,' or soot, has been greatly exaggerated due to mistaken assumptions about the atmospheric altitude at which its particles are concentrated, according to a new study. Emissions should be the focus of climate efforts, rather than soot, say team in a Nature paper. Soot plumes belch from chimneys, stoves and forest fires, causing numerous health ailments and, it was thought, a contribution to climate change second only to carbon dioxide. But when recent...

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