Black Carbon incline to Global Warming

It is an frightening circumstances that the black carbon is becoming a Supreme contributor to global

Warming. Carbon dioxide is the most widely cited convict when it comes to greenhouse-gas emissions and global warming. But black carbon which is otherwise known as ‘soot’ is also being seen as the second-leading cause for airborne pollution and climate change after carbon dioxide, and it’s totally preventable. Black carbon has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than the usual estimates. Black carbon produces particulates, a serious form of pollution.

Black carbon pollution is a major player in global warming. Home cooking fires, and also burning wood and coal are the originator of black carbon emission. This problem is also created in developing countries from cooking and rudimentary heating systems like people burning coal in their homes and there is no real way to stop that without a replacement form of energy. Between 25 and 35 percent of black carbon in the global atmosphere comes from china and India, emitted from the burning of wood and cow dung in household cooking and through the use of coal to heat homes. Countries in Europe and elsewhere that rely heavily on diesel fuel for transportation also contribute large amounts.

Around 400,000 people are supposed to die each year due to inhaling soot particles, mainly because of indoor cooking on wood and dung stoves in developing countries. These deaths are mainly among women and children. Breathing black carbon causes serious respiratory illness responsible for 1.6 million deaths a year, and when it falls on ice or snow in the arctic, it causes it to melt faster. Since black carbon stays in the atmosphere only for a short while, fast action to control it will buy time for addressing the larger issue of carbon dioxide, the chief cause of global warming.

Vehicles from fossil fuel to electric, plug-in-hybrid, or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles helps to reduce black carbon emission because the electricity or hydrogen is produced by a renewable energy source such as wind, solar, hydroelectric, wave, or tidal power. Such a conversion would eliminate fossil-fuel and reduce soot and co2 emissions by 1.63 gtco2–eq. per year. That the elimination of hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides would also eliminate some cooling particles, reducing the net benefit by at most, half, but improving human health. Control of black carbon, particularly from fossil-fuel sources, is very likely to be the fastest method of slowing global warming