Air Pollution, Aerosols and Clouds in the Climate System

Well, this is not exactly the aerosol related post. However, reducing carbon dioxide by incorporating newer technology will have side effect (of cause good) of reducing atmospheric aerosols, after all aerosols and carbon dioxide have more less similar source namely vehicular emissions, coal based power plants, etc. However, million dollar question is how society plans to pursue people and industry for reducing carbon dioxide emissions at global scale. One of the ways, politicians and economist come-up with is carbon trading. What is carbon trading? Can it achieve its stated objective? There are different opinions about it. Let us see one of the opinions in this video. Do you remember movie " Story of the Stuff ", if yes then well this video is from same people. The Story of Cap & Trade from Story of Stuff Project on Vimeo .

Couple of days back, a professor in my department forwarded me the link of this movie, saying it is 20 min long but worth seeing. After seeing I realized that this was the best animation I have ever seen. Click on the image or here to see movie. I don't want to spoil surprise by writing more about movie but if you trust my words, you are guaranteed your time will not be wasted.