Sentences with phrase «black carbon pollution»

But black carbon pollution threatens this essential cooling system.

Study finds some improved cookstoves may emit more black carbon pollution than traditional mud cookstoves

ToI: About 90 per cent of glaciers in Tibet called the Third Pole region, are shrinking because of black carbon pollution «transferred from South Asia» to the Tibetan Plateau, a Chinese scientist has warned.

«That means that reducing emissions of these climate pollutants would provide rapid climate benefits, especially in the Arctic where black carbon pollution accelerates the melting of ice and snow,» said Erika Rosenthal, the Earthjustice attorney who was part of the author team for the UNEP / WMO assessment.

«This is especially true for the Arctic, where black carbon pollution accelerates the melting of ice and snow.»

Forest fires produced much of the Arctic soot before 1850, but between the late 1880s and 1950, industrial black carbon pollution predominated.

The measures include stemming methane leaks from coal mines or landfills and stopping black carbon pollution from primitive stoves and diesel construction equipment.

Seeking stronger limits on black carbon pollution through litigation and advocacy to spur enforcement of the Clean Air Act's standards and requirements for fine particle pollution.

Earthjustice is representing the Arctic Athabaskan Council before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to reduce black carbon pollution, slow Arctic warming and protect Athabaskans» homeland.

Though it's certainly a wide range of possible impact, the study concludes that in a high - growth scenario this increased black carbon pollution could increase warming in the region by 17 - 78 % by 2030.

One study, published last year in the Journal of Geophysical Research, calculated that three - quarters of the black carbon pollution in the atmosphere over the western United States originates in Asia.

Human climate drivers include heat - trapping emissions from burning coal, gas and oil in power plants and cars; cutting down and burning forests; tiny pollution particles (aerosols); black carbon pollution more commonly referred to as soot; and changes in land use that also affects Earth's albedo.

Black carbon pollution, from diesel engines, heavy industry and other sources, has a double warming effect, first in the atmosphere and then again when it settles, darkening white ice and accelerating melting, to disastrous effect.