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Black carbon (soot) has 60% of the warming potential of CO2 and is a problem three to four times greater than previously assumed

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Black soot comes from and biofuels such as wood and organic fuel in cooking fires, diesel and fuel oil emissions, wildfires, agricultural burning, etc. The problem is most severe in developing and third world countries. New studies have shown that black carbon is far more significant at warming than previously assumed. It is a major…

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