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Climate impact of black carbon severely overestimated, says study
2014-09-26 12:45:00| 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. 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 observations about the atmospheric height of soot particles were used, a model simulation by the...
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