A new approach to urban planning with less car traffic and lower carbon emissions https://phys.org/news/2026-05-approach-urban-car-traffic-carbon.html

#environment #traffic #carbon #emissions

Wildfire dark brown carbon has strong global warming effects

Conventional understanding has held that brown #carbon—a type of organic #aerosol from #biomass burning—mainly absorbs sunlight in the near-ultraviolet range, giving it only a limited #climate impact. However, growing observations show that some #wildfire-derived #BrownCarbon appears dark brown or nearly black, absorbing light well into the visible spectrum. This "dark brown carbon" has been largely missing from global climate assessments.

The results show that wildfire-derived brown carbon has a global direct radiative effect of +0.097 W/m², with an uncertainty range of +0.050 to +0.276 W/m². Notably, the upper bound of this estimate (0.276 W/m²) exceeds the radiative contribution of black carbon (0.163 W/m²).

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-wildfire-dark-brown-carbon-strong.html

#ClimateScience

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#Screenshot #CodeSnippet #Carbon

https://thewhale.cc/posts/carbon

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Today's issue of Local Transport Today has some comments from me, in the item about the DfT's Local Transport Infrastructure Carbon Benchmarking Tool (LTICBT).

Online at https://www.transportxtra.com/publications/local-transport-today/news/80991/local-transport-infrastructure-carbon-benchmarking-tool-d-by-dft (£)

Or if you have the PDF, it's on page 20 .

#DfT #carbon #appraisal #LTT

Sweltering in 32°C heat in a #tree cooled city - in May (ffs!) I am accutely aware of and sympathetic to the need to remedy biological losses before spending more #carbon on #TechNerd driven snake oil technical fixes. Those dismissing this argument almost invariably have vested interests in said snake oil sales and tech-nerdery or lack critical analysis, and mainstream media is broadly complicit

This from Hart Hagan's 'The Climate Report' is a good read:
https://open.substack.com/pub/harthagan/p/they-key-to-quick-cooling-is-plants?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=57aksy