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Kyoto projects harm ozone layer
Seeded on Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:02 PM EDT (Reuters)
Kyoto's carbon-credit system subverted via cheating, counter-productive to Montreal Protocol's goal to preserve ozone layer.
NASA Finds Soot Has Impact On Global Climate
Seeded on Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:02 PM EDT (nasa.gov)
Soot's global impact on atmospheric warming - The researchers found the amount of sunlight absorbed by soot was two-to-four times larger than previously assumed.
Black Soot And Snow: A Warmer Combination
Seeded on Fri Sep 14, 2007 5:59 PM EDT (nasa.gov)
NASA finds that 25 percent of all global warming due to soot-driven dirty snow in the Arctic & tundra.
Don't blame Kilimanjaro's glacier loss on global warming
Seeded on Fri Sep 14, 2007 5:53 PM EDT (Science Daily)
The Woes Of Kilimanjaro: Don't Blame Global Warming: Loss of arboreal microclimates, other changes, perhaps coupled with dirty snow causing Kilimanjaro's glacier to retreat.
Giant toxic cloud may bring flood and droughts to two billion people
Seeded on Fri Sep 14, 2007 5:49 PM EDT (The Times)
Giant toxic cloud may bring flood and droughts to two billion people
'Brown Cloud' Stifles South Asia
Seeded on Fri Sep 14, 2007 5:48 PM EDT (CBS News)
Asian Brown Cloud linked to worldwide climate change
China Soot Heating Pacific Ocean
Seeded on Fri Sep 14, 2007 5:45 PM EDT (Discovery.com)
75 percent of the soot hitting the Western USA is from China, causes 30% of regional warming & loss of snow pack through dirty snow's lowered albedo.
Report assessing impact of soot on global warming could alter control strategies
Seeded on Fri Sep 14, 2007 5:38 PM EDT (EurekAlert!)
Findings could create new uncertainty and shift burden to developing nations
Asian Brown Cloud Poses Global Threat
Seeded on Fri Sep 14, 2007 5:33 PM EDT (CNN, InfoImagination)
"...The report calculated that the cloud -- 80 percent of which was man-made -- could cut rainfall over northwest Pakistan, Afghanistan, western China and western central Asia by up to 40 percent."
Soot from wood stoves in developing world impacts global warming more than expected
Seeded on Fri Sep 14, 2007 5:29 PM EDT (PhysOrg.com)
Note that only 10 percent of worldwide soot & aerosols are blamed on cook fires & diesel. The rest come from industrial sources & slash&burn agriculture.
2003 Report: 1/4 of reported global warming caused by dirty snow, Arctic forcings
Seeded on Thu Sep 6, 2007 12:13 PM EDT (BBC News)
"...The calculated global warming in an 1880-2000 simulation is about one-quarter of observed global warming."
Arctic Ice loss in 19th Century due to soot?
Seeded on Thu Sep 6, 2007 11:44 AM EDT (PhysOrg.com)
There are published anecdotal accounts that the Arctic underwent a large ice loss in the late 19th & early 20th centuries, replete with major glacial recessions and wide-open "moraines of of earth and stone." These anecdotes of ice sheet variations has spurred researchers to inve …
Asian airborne soot causes 40% of atmospheric warming in Pacific
Seeded on Wed Sep 5, 2007 4:44 PM EDT (Environmental Defense Fund)
The Asian Brown Cloud has a far-reaching global impact, contributing to disrupted weather patterns throughout the Pacific rim. The effects span eastward across the Pacific, causing as much as 30% of atmospheric warming in the USA.
Soot replaces role of CO2 in atmospheric warming by 50%
Seeded on Wed Sep 5, 2007 4:03 PM EDT (scienceagogo.com / Scripps Institution of Oceanogr)
Overturning the conventional theory that airborne soot emissions cause regional cooling it has been found that the warming caused by soot is 50 percent of what was previously blamed on CO2 emissions.
Up to 90% of Arctic ice loss due to soot fall, fast-melting dirty snow
Seeded on Wed Sep 5, 2007 3:42 PM EDT (Scienceagogo.com / UC Irvine)
Soot, largely from the vast Asian Brown Cloud, has far-reaching effects which have actually been *WARMING* the planet, not cooling it as was previously thought.
Dirt Isn't So Cheap After All
Seeded on Tue Sep 4, 2007 3:39 PM EDT ( IPS Inter Press Service)
Soil erosion is the "silent global crisis" that is undermining food production and water availability, as well as being responsible for 30 percent of the greenhouse gases driving climate change.
Clean Coal Gets A Boost From Down Under
Seeded on Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:38 PM EDT (biopact.com)
ZeroGen, Australia's most advanced clean coal power demonstration project owned by the Queensland government, has achieved [*.pdf] a significant milestone with the completion of the first stage of its test drilling program.
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