Can warming particles enter global climate discussions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15553384 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tami C Bond (0000-0001-5968-8928, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 045030-045030 |
| Publication date | 2007-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Research Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326 |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/2/4/045030 |
| OpenAlex | W1992038556 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 38 |
Soot' or 'black carbon', which comes from incomplete combustion, absorbs light and warms the atmosphere. Although there have been repeated suggestions that reduction of black carbon could be a viable part of decreasing global warming, it has not yet been considered when choosing actions to reduce climatic impact. In this paper, I examine four conceptual barriers to the consideration of aerosols in global agreements. I conclude that some of the major objections to considering aerosols under hemispheric or global agreements are illusory because: (1) a few major sources will be addressed by local regulations, but the remainder may not be addressed by traditional air quality management; (2) climate forcing by carbon particles is not limited to 'hot spots'—about 90% of it occurs at relatively low concentrations; (3) while aerosol science is complex, the most salient characteristics of aerosol behavior can be condensed into tractable metrics including, but not limited to, the global warming potential; (4) despite scientific uncertainties, reducing all aerosols from major sources of black carbon will reduce direct climate warming with a very high probability. This change in climate forcing accounts for at least 25% of the accompanying CO2 forcing with significant probability (25% for modern diesel engines, 90% for superemitting diesels, and 55% for cooking with biofuels). Thus, this fraction of radiative forcing should not be ignored
Aerosol · Atmospheric sciences · Carbon black · Climate change · Climate commitment · Climate model · Climatology · Combustion · Effects of global warming · Forcing (mathematics · Geography · Global warming · Greenhouse gas · Meteorology · Physics · Radiative forcing · Runaway climate change · Soot · Air Quality and Health Impacts · Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols · Chemistry · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Environmental Science · Ecology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.18 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2020 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |