Category: Global warming soot

For some years now James Hansen, one of the the world's more overtly political, anti-global warming scientists (he's terrified of it), has been urging world governments that can't break the deadlock over how, when, and whether to curb CO2 emissions to at least go after some other low-hanging fruit in the meantime. Here's one reference, from 2002, stemming from a report in PNAS. He said soot and methane are natural first targets. And Hansen, when he is not out pissing some people off for dropping the recommended scientific cloak of disinterested logic and instead just shouting at the world to wise up, is the...