Clearing the Smoke: Understanding the Impacts of Black Carbon Pollution

Clearing the Smoke: Understanding the Impacts of Black Carbon Pollution - Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming - 2010-03-16 - Black carbon is a particle pollutant -- a component of soot and smoke -- that is emitted during the burning of fossil fuels and biomass. Finding solutions that reduce black carbon pollution is an important step in the fight against climate change. On Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing entitled: "Clearing the Smoke: Understanding the Impacts of Black Carbon Pollution." TESTIMONY: Tami Bond, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Drew Shindell, Senior Scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Conrad Schneider, Advocacy Director, Clean Air Task Force. Video provided by the U.S. House of Representatives.

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[WorldStove]

thank you Dr Bond



[jeffagain1]

fucking communist,,, china is going to start a fucking war soon

[Hawk6DM]

First of all, diesel emissions are much cleaner that gasoline emissions. Just because you can see the partculates does not make them dirtier. Second, diesel engine are much more efficient than gasoline engines, so they burn less fuel per mile, thus less emissions. There are reasons why more than half the cars sold in Europe are diesels.

[madisonelectronic]

@MsTubbytube First the overpaid do- gooders are the people on the screen. And even though it is a generalization, Pakistan, India, China, and Russia have essentially told the world to go fuck themselves when it comes to pollution control. Pollution wackos then turn around and blame the USA for the worlds' ills. Maybe Al Gore will get involved, seeing he has taken in hundreds of millions with his global warming and carbon credit scams. You folks are like the gun haters. Nothing is ever enough

[madisonelectronic]

First the overpaid do- gooders are the people on the screen. And even though it is a generalization, Pakistan, India, China, and Russia have essentially told the world to go fuck themselves when it comes to pollution control. Pollution wackos then turn around and blame the USA for the worlds' ills. Maybe Al Gore will get involved, seeing he has taken in hundreds of millions with his global warming and carbon credit scams. You folks are like the gun haters. Nothing is ever enough.

[MsTubbytube]

thanks for posting these discussions.

[MsTubbytube]

@madisonelectronic first of all I am guessing you are not IN China or India so that's why you don't see people dying. Second of all, millions of people in China and India DO suffer from respiratory problems, and one of the leading causes of death among young children is illness such as pneumonia which is closely related to respiratory problems. I hope you will support the cheap solution of more efficient cookstoves even if you don't like the more expensive solutions.

[madisonelectronic]

The worst polluters in the world are China and India, and I do not see people dying there in droves. Look at all these overpaid, underworked assholes.

[jogeryjogo]

I watched this entire thing and now I wish I was fucking dead.