Of Cook Stoves and Climate Change | Use Celsias.com - reduce global °Celsius

Of Cook Stoves and Climate Change Use Celsias.com - reduce global °Celsius: "For example Black carbon emissions account for 30% of the changes associated with Himalayan glacier melt. It is perhaps fitting to say that one of the cheapest and most efficient means of avoiding dangerous tipping points in the climate system is to provide the world’s poor with improved cook stoves. By eliminating the use of open fires for cooking and accompanying black carbon emissions, it is possible to reduce an estimated 0.5-1 billion tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent gases in India alone. In addition this is a fast-acting climate strategy when compared to other mitigation strategies as particles generally remain in the atmosphere days to weeks compared with up to one hundred years for carbon dioxide."