Soot Is Warming the World — a Lot

sciencehabit writes "Soot is bad stuff all around, whether you're breathing it into your lungs or it's heating the atmosphere by absorbing more of the sun's energy. But a new 4-year, 232-page assessment (PDF) of soot's role in climate finds that the combustion product could be warming the world twice as much as previously thought. The study points policymakers toward the best targets for reducing climate-warming soot emissions while at the same time improving the health of billions of people."

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[taz346]

Of course now we can all eagerly await the responses from the Heartland Institute and others touting the health and economic benefits of soot.

Wooh! Good times ahead!

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank you, soot!

- From Frozen Hell (AKA. Finland) with love!

Re:Global Dimming

[fredrated]

Only to a complete, unmitigated moron.

Re:Now THERE's a reversal.

[BergZ]

So here we have a dilemma.
An Anonymous Coward on Slashdot says the IPCC predictions are a dismal failure.
On the other hand David J. Frame & Dáithí A. Stone compared the IPCC model predictions against the observed temperatures and found the predictions to be accurate (source).

So I guess the question is who am I going to believe:
The unsubstantiated claims of an Anonymous Coward on Slashdot -OR- the detailed research of scientists that has passed the peer-review process?
Tough call!