Posted on 11/30/2012 7:36:25 PM PST by dynachrome
The primary source of light for more than a billion people in developing nations is also churning out black carbon at levels previously overlooked in greenhouse gas estimates, according to a new study led by researchers at UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois.
Results from field and lab tests found that 7 to 9 percent of the kerosene in wick lamps -- used for light in 250-300 million households without electricity -- is converted to black carbon when burned. In comparison, only half of 1 percent of the emissions from burning wood is converted to black carbon.
Factoring in the new study results leads to a twenty-fold increase in estimates of black carbon emissions from kerosene-fueled lighting. The previous estimates come from established databases used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and others. One kilogram of black carbon, a byproduct of incomplete combustion and an important greenhouse gas, produces as much warming in a month as 700 kilograms of carbon dioxide does over 100 years, the authors said
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Our local Walmart can’t keep kerosene lamps in stock, and the wicks sell out fast as well. I just sent them an e-mail asking them to sell the replacement chimneys like they used to do.
It’s also the main ingredient of India ink without which we artists would surely go mad.
It’s completely non-toxic so I can’t see the Big Deal, here.
:)
“If the Third World is poisoning the air with this much dangerous global warming pollution...”
Actually they do - much more than the U.S. does. Still - it won’t affect the climate. While the U.S. and other modern nation’s citizens, and I suppose some leaders, really “believe” in man-made warming, I think the REAL leaders know it is a ruse.
But a good ruse to use to bring America and other modern countries down a notch or two. Or three or more.
Out of control coal seam fires in China put out more CO2 in a year than all of America’s cars and trucks do. And more and more coal seam fires happen all the time over there. (And they don’t/can’t be put out).
WIN!
Give me a break, it’s SOOT people. Next thing we know silicon dioxide (aka sand) will be declared hazardous.
If they really want to account for new sources, maybe they should consider all the excess carbon dioxide they produce braying about Global Warming, Climate Change, whatever.
If they only banned high tides, sea level rise would not be a threat. (Let 'em mull that over.)
Gee. Maybe they could repeal the Law of Gravity while they are at it.
How many people know that without "black carbon", there would be no shiny diamonds?
To steal and paraphrase a line from Bogey... “There are places in Africa even the left might not want to try and control”.
LLS
In today’s PC enviornment, I’m confused about whether or not your article’s head line is either “Racist” for mentioning ‘Black carbon’ as distincet from other types of carbon. OR if it is “racist” because it should refer to African-American Carbon, since ‘black’ is a racist and out of date term?
Please advise.
See also "UN Agenda 21."
Well, even more obviously, everyone who has the nerve to use these lamps should be killed immediately. They don’t respect Gaia.
Oh, yes, price is def a consideration. That’s why we have 10 gallons of kero in the garage. We use it in the Aladdin heater for emergencies. I try to buy lamp oil on sale.
So they want all those hundreds of millions of people to be in the darkness at night.
What lovers of humankind the left is.
And I wonder why, when so many people used kerosene lamps say in the latter half of the 19th century, globulwarming hadn’t started yet? Or is that part of the mythology?
http://www.wisconsinwatch.org/2012/10/02/conference-draws-50-frac-sand-protesters/
MINNEAPOLIS (Oct. 2, 2012) — More than 50 people gathered Monday to protest frac sand mining outside a conference on the silica sand resources of Minnesota and Wisconsin.
“This is total destruction,” said Kathleen Bibus of Red Wing, Minn. “We know the chemicals they use will contaminate the groundwater. We know the dust causes silicosis.”
Some communities are looking to try to ban shipments of SAND on the railways - much like the nuclear waste bans.
lol
That is just messed up.
I guess there went that parody idea I had. lolz
sand!
I suspect the study is referring to the old-fashioned sort of lamp. I also suspect that Aladdin lamps (I've got some as backups to my Colemans, which are backups to my LED lanterns----(I'm from hurricane country....backups were necessary....and the situation is WORSE up here in the "great northwest" of Washington state)) put out MUCH less carbon black than regular wick-only type lamps.
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