A climate issue that can be ameliorated

Crank down, or modify, that fireplace (for next winter).

Link to full report for some solutions, including additional links to more information: http://blogs.consumerreports.org/home/2009/04/black-carbon-soot-cardon-dioxide-emissions-wood-stove-changeout-campaign-solar-stove.html?EXTKEY=I72RSHA

clipped from blogs.consumerreports.org Global efforts under way to reduce black-carbon emissions soot, or black carbon (the airborne residue from incompletely burned fossil or biomass fuels), is also being seen as another serious cause of airborne pollution and climate change. Recent studies estimate that black carbon is responsible for 18 percent of the global warming, compared with 40 percent for carbon dioxide The small black particles of soot land on glaciers and ice caps, soak up sunlight, and accelerate polar-ice-cap melting. Smoke from wood- and dung-fueled cooking fires in the developing world are now the primary source of black soot. In the U.S., scrubbers and filters mandated by states and the federal government capture most of the on small-particulate emissions by diesel engines and coal-fired plants. But fireplaces and older wood stoves in the U.S. still emit large amounts of particulate matter that includes soot Solutions are at hand in both the industrialized and developing worlds.