Emissions cuts offer "greatest potential for substantial, simultaneous improvements in local air quality and near-term mitigation."
Douglas Fischer is editor of DailyClimate.org. E-mail him at dfischer@dailyclimate.org
This article originally ran at The Daily Climate, the climate change news source published by Environmental Health Sciences, a nonprofit media company.
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Add CommentAnother article that attempts to tap into eco-romantic marketability and trendiness and confuses real desirable goals like eliminating real pollutants with psuedo-scientific and quasi -religous vague terms like "fighting climate change".
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisDoes anyone question how much damage is being done and will be done to the credibility of real honest-to-goodness efforts to clean up the environment by diverting funds and efforts into chasing the ephemeral and chimeric "Climate Change" spirit?
During the 1940-1975 global cooling era, aerosols were blamed in that they were causing global dimming. I would surmise that cleaning the atmosphere may in fact warm day time temps but cool night time temps, thus having little effect on temperature. Still, having clean air is a bonus but climate will do what climate has always done - change, regardless of us.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisReducing gernuine toxic emissions is something tha I and many others can unequivocally supoort. Yet I oppose chasing after political CO2 reductions that modern Scientific theories increasingly confirm have little ability to modify or alter "climate change " . I prefer honest Science rather than bow to thr religious dogma of eco-fanatiics and is a waste ot time. Fot hose who think no progress ahas been made, please realize that CARB idiots still certified 56 different car modesl as being PZEC or AT=PZEV vehicles in model year 2008. These are NON-POLLUTING by definiton nad wil be jopined by many more modesl inthe2009 and subsequent model years. NON were BEVs , BTW, So ICE engines can vbe cleaned up. After we give up the folly of the anti-life crusade to limit a necessary trace gas , the world wil be lot better off.
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