Thu 10 Dec 2009
Venture Capitalist Claims Diesel Soot Melting the Sierra Snow Pack
Posted by EPR Network under Automotive, Education, Energy, Environment, Featured, Media, Society
Reducing Diesel Soot is Faster And Cheaper Than Reducing CO 2 in Effort to Slow Global Warming
Released on: December 10, 2009, 2:14 pm
Author: Elton Sherwin
Industry: Energy, Environment
MENLO PARK, California (December 10, 2009) – In his new book, Addicted to Energy,Silicon Valley venture capitalist Elton Sherwin claims that reducing diesel soot is key to affordably protecting the planet from rapid warming.
Drawing on research from UC Berkeley, Stanford and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography , Sherwin says that reducing diesel soot is faster and cheaper than reducing CO 2 . “We still need to dramatically reduce CO 2 , but eliminating diesel soot is a quick, affordable way to lessen the likelihood of crossing a major climate threshold or tipping point.”
Some models show California ’s Central Valley getting 10 degrees hotter this century. “We in California should be very motivated to get this right, to lead the world in developing strategies to reduce diesel soot. This is primarily a financing issue, not a technology issue. The technology exists to do this.”
Stacy Jackson in her work at UC Berkeley has shown that primary active ingredient in diesel soot, black carbon, will have a significantly greater impact on the world’s climate than CO 2 in the short term.
