http://www.rdmag.com/News/2010/02/Environment-Global-Warming-Black-Carbon-Culprit-In-Melting-Himalayan-Glaciers/?wnnvz=1737,01290358852

Menon and her collaborators found that airborne black carbon aerosols,  
or soot, from India is a major contributor to the decline in snow and  
ice cover on the glaciers.

Gus 
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