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We've reported a number of times on the growing body of knowledge pointing to aerosols being a greater component of climate change than previously thought, and to black carbon soot accelerating Himalayan glacier melting. Well, some new research from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory quantifies that effect a bit more:

Surabi Menon told Space Daily,

Our simulations showed greenhouse gases alone are not nearly enough to be responsible for the snow melt. Most of the change in snow and ice cover--about 90% of it--is from aerosols. Black carbon alone contributes at least 30% of this sum.