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Third-World Stove Soot Is Target in Climate Fight

hypocritexposer

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Great now cooking over an open flame is causing global warming. Why didn't the world explode when our ancestors were cooking or heating their caves? :shock: :shock:

Third-World Stove Soot Is Target in Climate Fight
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Published: April 16, 2009
Scientists say that reducing soot from villages in developing countries is a relatively simple climate fix.

KOHLUA, India — “It’s hard to believe that this is what’s melting the glaciers,” said Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, as he weaved through a warren of mud brick huts, each containing a mud cookstove pouring soot into the atmosphere. As women in ragged saris of a thousand hues bake bread and stew lentils in the early evening over fires fueled by twigs and dung, children cough from the dense smoke that fills their homes. Black grime coats the undersides of thatched roofs. At dawn, a brown cloud stretches over the landscape like a diaphanous...

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