Fuente: Caltech Today
Expuesto el: jueves, 06 de mayo de 2010 10:00
Autor: Caltech Today
Asunto: Researchers Work to Better Understand How Soot Emissions Impact Global Warming
| Researchers from Caltech, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology are collaborating to study the effects of soot on global warming. Soot, tiny airborne particles that billow out of diesel trucks and industrial smokestacks, is not only harmful to humans, but may be causing adverse warming effects that could create more severe weather patterns and hotter temperatures worldwide. In a study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers including Caltech's John H. Seinfeld report that controls on black carbon soot might not slow global warming as much as previously thought. |
