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Black Carbon – Soot – Second Biggest Climate Pollutant

Soot, the black carbon that results from burning fossil fuels and biomass, is now considered the world’s second most potent climate pollutant, after carbon dioxide. Black carbon is an emission from burned fuels, primarily diesel combustion, industry and residential coal and other solid fuels, and open burning of fields and forests. In an article, “Bounding…