FOUR-YEAR STUDY FINDS BLACK CARBON SECOND BIGGEST CLIMATE POLLUTANT, BEHIND CARBON DIOXIDE

摘要

Black carbon is the second most powerful climate pollutant, ahead of methane, and second only to carbon dioxide, according to a landmark four-year assessment lead by T.C. Bond, S. J. Doherty, D. W. Fahey, and P. Forster, and a multinational team of 27 other experts, including prominent scientists from China and India. Their results, Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system, are scheduled to be published online Tuesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.