A project led by U.S. to reduce soot and heat-trapping air pollutants around the world is not as promising. Other nations had expected that it could effectively stand off against climate change, Reuters reported.
Unhappy with the unsuccessful deal to reduce global warming, more or less 30 nations shared the U.S. initiative that as a new way to protect health, help growth of crops and control rise of temperature, they should limit short-lived air pollutants.
Researchers at the U.S. Energy Department‘s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory had released a report that reducing soot and methane would only have a modest impact to control global warming.
As implied by the report, rising countries would take away, high-polluting technologies as their economies rise, so that emissions would drop regardless of any split in fresh policies.
Drew Shindell, a climate scientist at NASA, told Reuters that it doesn’t occur automatically.
He added that the hard work of reducing soot and methane that quickly break down could significantly balance a wider drive to restrain global warming, which is largely due to carbon dioxide.
The Climate and Clean Air Coalition reiterates that simple acts could have big benefits if we tap methane that would – if not – seep out from trash dumps as a source of energy, reduce flaring of natural gas, and change cows’ diets.
A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday said that a “comprehensive climate policy” was required in which all greenhouse emissions would be lessened.
Steven Smith, lead author of the study told Reuters, “Our results don't change previous findings that soot and methane emission reductions would have beneficial effects for health and agriculture."
Approximately 200 countries pledged to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6F) above pre industrial times. Average global temperatures rose by 0.8 degrees Celsius (1.4F).
