Asian News International: According to a climate scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan, soot from mud cooking stoves in tens of thousands of villages in India is emerging as a major source of global warming. Soot, also known as black carbon, is the second most hazardous gas, after carbon dioxide and is responsible for 18pct of the planet’s warming. “It’s hard to believe that this is what’s melting the glaciers,” the Scotsman quoted Ramanathan as saying. Ramanathan suggests that replacing primitive …