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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 6 months ago

The World Is Ignoring the Other Deadly Kind of Carbon

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The World Is Ignoring the Other Deadly Kind of Carbon

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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 6 months ago

Not only is black carbon terrible for human health, but ever-fiercer wildfires are covering the Arctic with the dark particles, accelerating melting.

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Agreed, just wanted to point out that controlled burns are good and not as bad as uncontrolled ones :)

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