Law of soot light absorption: Current climate models underestimate warming by black carbon aerosol

Monday, November 19, 2018 - 12:40 in Physics & Chemistry

Soot belches out of diesel engines, rises from wood- and dung-burning cookstoves and shoots out of oil refinery stacks. According to recent research, air pollution, including soot, is linked to heart disease, some cancers and, in the United States, as many as 150,000 cases of diabetes every year.

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