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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (6270)3/4/2005 12:34:16 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
I wonder what Kyoto will have to say about this?

The QandO Blog
Posted by: McQ

Not much I'm sure:

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The major source of potentially climate-changing soot in the air over south Asia is home cooking fires, according to a team of Indian and American researchers.
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How in the world can this be true? I thought only thoughtless America and her SUVs were the culprit.

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The burning of wood, agricultural waste and animal manure for cooking is the largest source of black carbon in the air in that region, according to the team led by C. Venkataraman of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

"We therefore suggest that the control of these emissions through cleaner cooking technologies, in addition to reducing health risks to several hundred million users, could be of crucial importance to climate change mitigation in south Asia," the researchers wrote in a paper appearing in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
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Uh huh. I'd love to know what they propose as the "clean" alternative to the millions cooking the way they are and have been for centuries? More importantly, how are they going to enforce the change (which I'd guess will cost more than the "traditional" way).

The effect of soot in the air over the Indian Ocean is some 10 times that of the so-called greenhouse gases, according to the researchers. The pollution causes the air to absorb more sunlight, warming the atmosphere and cooling the surface beneath.

Such changes can affect rainfall patterns, contributing to intensity of floods and droughts, the group said in their paper.

And not an SUV in sight.

Go figure.

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