Via Via Meadia comes this news: The Economist also brings us big
news on the “settled science” of climate change. A new study has
found soot to be twice as bad for climate as was previously
thought, making it the second most damaging greenhouse agent
after CO2. This is actually good news for two reasons. First,
soot is easier to control than CO2, and targeting that kind of
pollution provides lots of benefits that have nothing to do with
climate change: it’s a dangerous pollutant and a health threat
on its own. Second, controlling soot will seriously slow the
speed of climate change. One of the study’s authors told the
Economist that fully addressing the soot problem would strip
half a degree from potential warming, buying politicians and
scientists more time to make informed decisions.