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Serious climate action addresses soot, particulates and black carbon first instead of CO2

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Whatever happens to the global climate. There have not been serious or effective political action to reduce effects on the climate. Nothing Obama did was serious. Bush 2 stumbled into something that happened while he was president. Which was natural gas fracking. That helped but it was not because of policy targeted for environmental benefit.

Serious climate action addresses soot, particulates and black carbon first instead of CO2 since it would be cheaper, faster and more effective.

See a good primer showing projected levels of energy productions methods, deaths by method, here.

And see here for an article about media-enabled climate deniers, including potential future EPA chief Myron Ebell.

Read the rest of the story HERE:

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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.

His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
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