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'Don't Soot': the Messenger
Soot pollution a big contributor to climate change, study finds |
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24 Mar 2008 |
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| Posted at 8:01 AM on 24 Mar 2008 Soot pollution contributes significantly to climate change and is second only to carbon dioxide as a climate-warming factor, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The study estimates that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may have underestimated soot's role as a climate-warming factor by about three or four times. If the new rese ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, climate, climate change mitigation, news, scientific research (all these topics) |
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