Sentences with phrase «black carbon soot»

This intensifies the regional climate impacts as black carbon soot falling on white ice and snow decreases their reflectivity and contributes significantly to melting of land glaciers and sea ice.

During a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University, Kopacz studied black carbon soot deposited in the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau.

White sulfur aerosols cool the climate; black carbon soot warms the climate.

More on the important role that black carbon soot plays in increasing global warming and what can be done about it: A new study published in Nature Geoscience found that the amount of solar radiation absorbed increased as the ratio of black carbon to sulphate rose.

If there's some good news in this, it's that reducing black carbon soot is increasingly on the international agenda, and that compared to other climate pollutants its effects are very short - lived once the source of the pollution is eliminated.

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.

Eliminating black carbon soot, which comes mainly from household heating systems, vehicles, and fires, would be a good place to start.

Now there's some new research showing how man - made pollution, such as black carbon soot, is contributing to this poleward shift.

Judith - Apart from the general anthro vs. natural disussion of sea ice, I'm always wondering: has anyone seriously considered / studied the possible anthropogenic contribution from NON-CO2 sources (black carbon soot / aerosol deposits on the ice surface, increasing the albedo, melting the ice faster in the sun)?

Environment Ministers from states bordering the Arctic have called for urgent action on short lived climate pollutants (SLCP) such as methane, HFCs and black carbon soot.

NA # 19: You are right, tropospheric aerosols from fossil fuels are incredibly bad for human health and other environmental impacts (black carbon soot, acid rain, radioactive emissions, mercury poisoning).

Black carbon The soot that results from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, biofuels, and biomass (wood, animal dung, etc.).