Sentences with phrase «address black soot»

If it costs pennies to address black soot and megabucks to address CO2, well, you have to start somewhere.

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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.

I was disappointed that they did not go into specifics of monitoring procedures and how they got their numbers, but the message was clear: deforestation is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions (mostly carbon dioxide, but also methane and black soot) and that it needs to be addressed in the Kyoto Protocol.

All make a sort of end run around cutting carbon emissions — though the authors explicitly and rightly acknowledge that we need to do that too — by addressing other sources of warming, namely black carbon soot and methane emissions.