U-T San Diego: In the late 1990s Scripps professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan led an international team of researchers that identified the brown cloud of soot wafting from India, and warned of its contribution to climate change.
This year he released a report showing that diesel emissions reductions aimed at cutting pollution deaths in California have the serendipitous effect of curbing climate change.
Now Ramanathan, an Indian-born researcher for Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is bringing his expertise...