India responsible for Global warming?
Wait for western spin-doctors to start playing with this news item in the Independent:
In a vivid demonstration of interconnectedness, Nasa scientists have found that one-third of the soot affecting the Arctic comes from South Asia. And Indian studies show that nearly half of the soot emitted in the region comes from cooking fires…I can see superb potential for GW Bush to argue that the USA has no need to implement any measures to curb pollution, because the Indians and Asians are the ones polluting the rest of the world (and anyway, there is no such thing as Global Warming)...
...The Nasa scientists were amazed to find that only one-third of the soot reaching the ice came from the nearby industrialised countries of Europe, and North America and the former Soviet Union. A similar amount results from burning vegetation around the world, with the final third coming from South Asia. And the Indian subcontinent provided most of the soot falling out on Greenland.