Bill Clinton: Forget CO2, go for the low-hanging fruit | Grist
Bill Clinton urged mayors at the Large Cities Climate Summit to go after a pollutant 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide: methane. By capturing it from landfills, from which it leaches in prodigious amounts, cities could use it to generate power. Wrestling CO2 could take years, but harnessing methane could make a big difference and make it more quickly.
He also urged mayors to go after black carbon -- all the soot and particulate crud that comes to rest on the surface of the earth, making the ground absorb more solar energy.
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I guess one wouldn't expect clueless Clinton to know much about the subject of carbon and particulates, but then he shouldn't be discussing it, either. Someone should tell him that the particulate control systems mandated by the Clean Air Act in the USA are so strict that there is virtually none emitted from industry (wild fires are now the only major sources). So will the mayors tell China and India to clean up their act?
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