The forgotten greenhouse gas pollutants
DEC 28, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023956
latimes.com : Carbon dioxide, of course, is the poster gas for climate change.But carbon dioxide accounts for only half the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.And a few simple strategies can be used to reduce the other pollutants that cause global warming.Those sources include so-called black carbon, soot from incompletely burned fossil fuels and biomass, including that produced by ships and cooking stoves that collects in the atmosphere and on ice and prevents sunlight from being reflected back into space; hydrofluorocarbon chemicals, known as HFCs, used in refrigerators and air conditioners worldwide; and methane, which emanates from coal mines and landfills.
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