Widen global warming fight beyond CO2: U.N.

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSL449824520090904

Widen global warming fight beyond CO2: U.N.

Fri Sep 4, 2009 10:58am EDT

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent

GENEVA (Reuters) - The world should widen a fight against global warming by curbing a string of pollutants other than carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Friday.

Heat-trapping methane, nitrogen compounds, low-level ozone and soot are responsible for almost half of the man-made emissions stoking climate change in the 21st century, it said.

A wider assault on pollutants, twinned with cuts in carbon dioxide, would help toward a new U.N. climate pact due to be agreed in December and have other benefits such as improving human health, raising crop yields and protecting forests.

"The science is showing us that global warming is happening faster and on a greater scale than anticipated," UNEP executive director Achim Steiner told Reuters on the sidelines of a World Climate Conference in Geneva.

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[kristopher]

1. KR

[joshcryer]

2. Methane is looking to be the next biggest concern.

I suggested actually lighting methane fields in the Arctic on fire just so that they're not as potent. I know it's a poor stop-gap but still.

Gotta get off of this meat addiction, too.