Black carbon and the warming of the world

In this episode, we look at another climate catastrophe contributor - black soot.  Killling more people than HIV, malaria, and TB combined soot and smoke from cookstoves and hearths contributes not only to direct deaths but is a major contributor to climate warming.Interviewed by Alex Smith, host of Radio Ecoshockauthor of Fire and Ice, Jonathan Mingle explains how this dirty residue, a.k.a. black carbon, is one of the world's most dangerous and least understood pollutants, leading to millions of premature deaths annually and contributing more to glacial melting than carbon dioxide does.Will black soot, the second greatest cause of global warming, be regulated at Paris?Vivien hunts down the answers with scientists Gerard Wedderburn Bisshop, David Karoly and Malte Meinshausen.Put this in your diary - Melbourne People's March.  If you do nothing else to support climate change, do this!  Friday, November 27th outside the State Library.  See you there.