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Hazy clouds: Making black carbon visible in climate science
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In 1995, a multimillion-dollar experiment as mentioned in this paper discovered a dark mass of polluting air hovering above the Indian subcontinent, which was termed a cloud and fouled the Indian Ocean.Abstract:
In 1995, a multimillion-dollar experiment – the Indian Ocean Experiment – discovered a dark mass of polluting air hovering above the Indian subcontinent. This mass of air was termed a cloud and fou...read more
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Trading disaster: Containers and container thinking in the production of climate precarity
Laurie Parsons,Ricardo Safra de Campos,Alice Moncaster,Ian Cook,Tasneem Siddiqui,Chethika Abenayake,Amila Jayasinghe,Pratikshya Bohra Mishra,Tamim Billah +8 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors examine how global trade shapes and intensifies disasters and show that the container logic that frames analysis of these processes serves as both obfuscator and actor in the global landscape of environmental risk.
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Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment
Tami C. Bond,Sarah J. Doherty,David W. Fahey,Piers M. Forster,Terje Koren Berntsen,Benjamin DeAngelo,Mark Flanner,Steven J. Ghan,Bernd Kärcher,Dorothy Koch,Stefan Kinne,Yutaka Kondo,Patricia K. Quinn,Marcus C. Sarofim,Martin G. Schultz,Michael Schulz,Chandra Venkataraman,Hua Zhang,Shiqiu Zhang,Nicolas Bellouin,Sarath K. Guttikunda,Philip K. Hopke,Mark Z. Jacobson,Johannes W. Kaiser,Zbigniew Klimont,Ulrike Lohmann,Joshua P. Schwarz,Drew Shindell,Trude Storelvmo,Stephen G. Warren,Charles S. Zender +30 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided an assessment of black-carbon climate forcing that is comprehensive in its inclusion of all known and relevant processes and that is quantitative in providing best estimates and uncertainties of the main forcing terms: direct solar absorption; influence on liquid, mixed phase, and ice clouds; and deposition on snow and ice.
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Geology of mankind
TL;DR: It seems appropriate to assign the term ‘Anthropocene’ to the present, in many ways human-dominated, geological epoch, supplementing the Holocene—the warm period of the past 10–12 millennia.
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The Anthropocene: are humans now overwhelming the great forces of Nature?
TL;DR: This work uses atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration as a single, simple indicator to track the progression of the Anthropocene, the current epoch in which humans and the authors' societies have become a global geophysical force.
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Atmospheric aerosols: Biogeochemical sources and role in atmospheric chemistry
TL;DR: In this article, two important aerosol species, sulfate and organic particles, have large natural biogenic sources that depend in a highly complex fashion on environmental and ecological parameters and therefore are prone to influence by global change.