Posted on 05/24/2012 12:46:12 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Short notice – this is on NOW.
Worth watching, even if only for how they justify saying ‘black carbon and other “short-lived” greenhouse gases.’. I didn’t know black carbon was a gas. Here’s the release:
On Thursday, May 24, at 12 NOON EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME / 9:00 AM PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME, a group of internationally acclaimed scientists will present to the California Air Resources Board findings on black carbon and other “short-lived” greenhouse gases.
The presentation will be webcast. For more information, see the email below and visit http://www.cal-span.org.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Leading scientists to present findings on black carbon and climate change to California Air Resources Board
Presentation to be Webcast – visit http://www.cal-span.org for details.
Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 9:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time
SACRAMENTO – On Thursday, May 24, six internationally recognized scientists will describe their findings on black carbon and other ‘short-lived’ greenhouse gases to the California Air Resources Board.
Their research will demonstrate that focusing on methane, hydrofluorocarbons, and black carbon would be a highly effective strategy to mitigate impacts of climate change especially in Arctic regions.
The studies to be presented are among a body of growing research indicating the dangers posed by black carbon. On Saturday, the G8 announced that it will formally join the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (launched in February) complementing efforts to address carbon dioxide emissions.
What: Presentation of Research Findings on Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
Who:
Dr. Mark Jacobson, Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford
Dr. V. Ramanathan, Professor Scripps Instit. of Oceanography, UC San Diego
Dr. Marc L. Fischer, Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dr. Erika Sasser, Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Dr. Alan Lloyd, President, International Council on Clean Transportation
Mr. Durwood Zaelke, President, Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development
Where:
Byron Sher Auditorium
CalEPA Headquarters, 2nd Floor
1001 I Street, Sacramento, California 95814
When: 9:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Thursday, May 24th, 2012
NOTE: THIS PRESENTATION WILL BE WEBCAST. Visit http://www.cal-span.org for details.
ARB’s mission is to promote and protect public health, welfare, and ecological resources through effective reduction of air pollutants while recognizing and considering effects on the economy. The ARB oversees all air pollution control efforts in California to attain and maintain health based air quality standards.
Office of Communications 1001 I Street, Sacramento CA 95814. Ph:
(916) 322-2990
From the comments:
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Grey Lensman says:
Black carbon gas, a new terror weapon? What will they dream up next?
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Werner Brozek says:
I didn’t know black carbon was a gas.
The following has some contradictory statements:
http://www.stopblackcarbon.com/Black_carbon_biomass_burning.htm
“The Nature of Black Carbon and Its Effects on Earth
Black Carbon is a solid carbon particle, however small it may be. It is considered an aerosol due to its very small size, as it remains suspended in the air for some time, and it is carried by air movement or turbulence into higher layers of our atmosphere.
Summary
Carbon Dioxide and Black Carbon (smoke) are understood to be undesirable Greenhouse Gases and efforts must be implemented worldwide to reduce the emissions of them.”
So I guess the answer is that while black carbon is really a solid, it is thought of as a gas due to its small size as it does not drop to earth like a clump of coal.
Black carbon (soot) is an aerosol, not a gas.
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alan says:
Nothing more than a propaganda attempt by CARB to paint CO2 and carbon soot with the same brush. “Guilt by association”! Carbon soot = CO2 = ALL CARBON BAD! A blatant attempt to confuse a gullible public!
The state budget is in the shitter and these liberal retardos continue stuck on stupid!
You are a candidate for the reducation gualog....not sure how to spell that.
Probably need more schooling.
Plants love such short-lived “green house” gases as black carbon - they help create diffuse lighting, which plants love more than blaring direct sunlight (have you ever been in a green house or a rain forest - it’s not just the water and the humidity, it’s the sheltering affect of diffuse sunlight).
So how is it that the “Global Warming” radicals call their movement the “Green” movement and their global perspective as “Green” when so much of what they campaign against is loved by the plant kingdom on earth (which we need and use for food, right?).
Thanks Ernest.
If I ever snap and go postal and mow down a mass of innocent people, I really hope I snap when I am in a building full of CARB managers. I really do.
LOL....they are wasting our money BIG TIME.
Should have guessed some elite man-made climate change zealots were in town.
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