Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming - Clearing the Smoke: Understanding the Impacts of Black Carbon Pollution - Black carbon is a particle pollutant -- a component of soot and smoke -- that is emitted during the burning of fossil fuels and biomass. Finding solutions that reduce black carbon pollution is an important step in the fight against climate change. On Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing entitled: “Clearing the Smoke: Understanding the Impacts of Black Carbon Pollution.” TESTIMONY: Tami Bond, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Drew Shindell, Senior Scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Conrad Schneider, Advocacy Director, Clean Air Task Force. Video provided by the U.S. House of Representatives. Uploaded by Public.Resource.Org from House.Resource.Org.