Sentences with phrase «about soot»

About soot — response to post 2 E. O'Neal — yes, it is believed that soot landing on snow makes it more likely to melt.

Given the recent research about soot, it's likely that NGO's or possibly the UNDP would chip in for the solar oven effort.

The good news about soot is that, compared to other factors contributing to climate change the bad effects cease relatively quickly once the source of pollution is removed.

Also you can find a good article about soot and global warming here.

Not exact matches

When grill temperature is down to medium (about 400 °), scrub cooking grate with a grill brush, then wipe grate with a clean, dry rag to remove soot.

Heat the room at the touch of a button and don't worry about smoke or soot, when you make AKDY your choice.

The researchers estimate that a fully populated 20 x 20 foot mussel raft similar to the one used in this study would clean an average of three million gallons of water and remove about 350 pounds of particulate matter, like dust and soot, daily.

At least two studies have been published since 2010 that suggest reducing soot and methane would cut human - caused global temperature increases by half of a degree Celsius, or about 1 degree Fahrenheit, by 2050.

Researchers found that emissions of fine particulate matter, or soot, were about 99 percent lower than soot emissions allowed from engines manufactured in 2004.

As a result the air gets worse, whether you're talking about choking smog, insidious soot or, yes, climate change.

But the two men's estimates of soot's impact are about twice as high as the consensus reached by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its 2007 report, which many scientists (including Shindell) still endorse.

At least two studies published since 2010 — one report from the United Nations Environment Programme in 2011 and a follow - up published in Science last year — suggested that significantly reducing the emissions of soot and methane could trim human - caused warming by at least 0.5 °C (0.9 ° F) by 2050, compared with an increase of about 1 °C if those emissions continued unabated.

However, the model depends heavily on assumptions about the way soot particles form, he says.

According to their models, soot could have caused about 1 meter's worth of additional ice melt each year despite cool temperatures and steady precipitation, they report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Soot from oil - burning ships is dumping about 1000 tonnes of soluble iron per year across 6 million square kilometres of ocean, new research has revealed.

A high - end estimate of soot totals some 70 billion metric tons (about 77 billion U.S. short tons).

October 9, 2017 What soot covered, hundred - year - old birds can tell us about saving the environment A unique study by UChicago grad students shows that discoloration of birds in museum collections can be used to trace the history of air pollution.

But for now I want to gush about H&T handbags and the soot we did in Chi - town!

It took decades for Americans to forget about those»70s and»80s soot - spewing clatter machines and start believing diesel could be quiet,...

It took decades for Americans to forget about those»70s and»80s soot - spewing clatter machines and start believing diesel could be quiet, smooth and most importantly, clean.

Jake Ewert's two soot - on - corduroy panels, both abstractions of a cat's face — easily the least representational cats here — have something vaguely Frank Stella about them.

re # 1 my educated guess about the effects of soot on glaciers would be if the soot were to settle on the glaciers it would have the same effect of natural soil and rock.

This means those eight years aren't actually eight years we can gain by cutting soot emissions; rather, our results suggest that we need to accelerate carbon dioxide emissions by about eight years relative to these scenarios if we don't also act to reduce soot emissions.»

A few issues raised have been legitimate, such as leebert's information about the effects of soot - which remain controversial, and (as he pointed out) do not impact the need to reduce CO2 emissions.

Once the world quits nagging them about the insoluable and imaginary problem of CO2, and focusses on the soot, there'll be an easy solution.

In total, the authors find that soot emitted by the shipping industry contributes to about 2 percent of the total soot present in the atmosphere.

TreeHugger has written about the growing acknowledgement that soot pollution is a major component of global warming — contributing a shocking amount to melting of glaciers in the Himalayas is just one example.

TreeHugger has written about the growing acknowledgement that soot pollution is a major component of global warming — contributing a shocking amount to melting of glaciers in the Himalayas is just

In Hansen Nazarenko 2004, Hansen wrote that «Our estimate for the mean soot effect on spectrally integrated albedos in the Arctic... is about one quarter of observed global warming.»

Back in 2000, I wrote the first stories about a push by James Hansen of NASA to curb black carbon (soot) as a first step, while working to build the bigger effort needed to address the tougher CO2 challenge.

Photo: Public domainOther Truck Fleets, Pay AttentionDid you know that replacing a pre-1994 diesel truck (or at least the engine) with a 2004 - 2006 model could cut soot pollution by about 2/3, and reduce smog - forming nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions by

Another article about Arctic sea ice melt and no mention of the role of soot: instead, the only potential causes presented are «atmospheric warming» or the thoroughly debunked volcanoes.

If they're lousy odds, then shouldn't we be talking about easier fixes first, like mitigation soot & ozone emissions?

I'm a moderate liberal, but I would like everyone to think about this: What has Bush done to mitigate soot?

Learn more about black carbon by watching Stop Soot: The Easiest Way to Slow Climate Change, an animated video.

The wild exaggerations of both the direct CO2 warming and the supposedly more serious knock - on warming are rooted in an untruth: the falsehood that scientists know enough about how clouds form, how thunderstorms work, how air and ocean currents flow, how ice sheets behave, how soot in the air behaves.

The UN was so concerned about man - made Global Cooling during the 1970's that they wanted to melt the Arctic by spreading black soot on it:

And ships, besides releasing almost 3 percent of the world's CO2 (about as much as all of Canada emits), are also a main source of nitrous oxide and black carbon (soot).

For example, did you read the recent results about black soot, which was significantly underestimated (or ignored) for decades, but has now jumped to second place (behind CO2) in terms of its impact.

As Earth Week 2013 draws to a close, I want to draw your attention to a unique effort to learn more about why Greenland is melting so fast — a crowd - funded research project that anyone can contribute to, which aims to answer the «burning question»: How much does wildfire and industrial soot darken the ice, increasing melt?

Black carbon / soot is often discussed and has been known about since the first scientific arctic expeditions in the 1820's.

I thought one area of agreement was that methane and black soot had to go, so we need to now think about CO2 itself, the bear in the room, because that is the one with the long - term effect.

Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report released Thursday.

In the 1970's, when we were worried about global cooling, some climatologists seriously suggested covering the polar caps with soot in order to melt the ice!

Ironically, soot from 400 million low - efficiency cooking stoves replaced by higher - efficiency stoves, will add billions of person / years and 1.5 hours a day to the lives of about two billion «pre-industrials».

And the best news about methane and soot is that there are numerous ways to effectively control these two climate destabilizers, often at minimal initial costs and with large near - term benefits.

I recall reading about plans the Mitre Corporation proposed to flood the centre of Africa to alter the world's climate, as well as the perennial sprinkling of soot on the poles.

Looking at the journals of the first scientific Arctic explorer - Scoresby - he made comments about the amount of black soot lying on the ice / snow and melting it.

You will see other comments about the role of black soot, something that dr Hansen has written on.

When I return I look forward to reading your replies about my other queries on Black Soot and likely co2 concentrations by 2100.