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Hazy clouds: Making black carbon visible in climate science.
- Source :
- Journal of Material Culture; Jun2021, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p162-177, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- In 1995, a multimillion-dollar experiment – the Indian Ocean Experiment – discovered a dark mass of polluting air hovering above the Indian subcontinent. This mass of air was termed a cloud and found to be composed of a high amount of black carbon that was judged to be the second biggest threat to climate change after carbon-dioxide. In this article, an attempt is made to trace the life of black carbon by documenting its changing forms since the experiment. It emerges that the changing forms allow for the movement of air – smoke from traditional cookstoves and vehicular diesel emissions in India lead to the formation of the cloud – and reveal how an ethnography of air can be undertaken. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CLIMATOLOGY
CARBON-black
CLIMATE change
DIESEL motor exhaust gas
AIR masses
ETHNOLOGY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13591835
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Material Culture
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 150871988
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183521994864