Leh Cloud Burst caused by Global Warming
EH cloudburst was an impact of global warming, feel scientists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune. They said extreme events have been increasing in monsoon season due to warming.
“The normal average temperature of the Northern Hemisphere is 15 degrees Celsius. However, it has been observed that it has gone up to 15.7 [...]
It’s not the Science that Matters
As more and more writers cry foul, saying that our current way of life is fine, and the status quo is worthy of retention and worship, I feel that it is necessary to put the Science in perspective. The duty of Science is to find out why things that happen are happening, in the [...]
Do we need more proof?
It is ironical to see that on one hand, where around 20,000 delegates and observers have gatherred from around the world for the climate talks in Copenhagen, there are still questions around “whether global warming is real”. A report released by the World Meteorological Organization today says that the 2009 is one of the [...]
Mapping India: Land Degradation and Desertification
Cross Posted on Reporting on a Revolution
In the November 25 issue of Current Science, researchers from the Indian Space Research Organization release a map and some important estimates of the extent of land degradation and desertification affecting mainly dry, semi-arid and dry- sub humid areas of India.
Source: Desertification/land degradation status mapping of India
About 69% of [...]
Speeding Up Mineral Reactions To Combat Global Warming
Cross posted at Reporting on a Revolution.
The more familiar method of carbon dioxide sequestration involves capturing and pumping the gas into underground reservoirs where geological traps that have sealed natural gas for millions of years will serve to lock captured CO2 for eons as well.
Nature has published a paper by Jürg M. Matter and Peter [...]
India’s Climate Revolution: growing stronger by the day
A 20 Million Year History Of Atmospheric CO2
Cross Posted From Reporting On A Revolution
From Brave Blue Words I found out that Thursday Oct 15 was Blog Action Day for Climate Change. Bloggers all over the world are writing about various aspects of climate change.
Being a geologist I want to point to a study that reconstructs atmospheric CO2 levels as far back as [...]
Hyderabad Youth Charter on Climate
This youth charter on Climate/ Climate Change is the outcome of the first Hyderabad Youth Summit on Climate Change held in the Deloitte Campus in Gachibowli, Hyderbad on June 20, 21st ’09. The summit was organized by the Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN) with the support of WWF-India, Deloitte and APEC.
Since the charter is quite [...]
Eu Adoro Portugal
Packing my bags for the most unplanned journey of my life, I kept wondering if all the trouble was worth what I was going through. A trip up to Delhi, on a days notice, to get my visa processed, and then a couple of days of roaming around and giving hard times to Caroline. And [...]
Geology Will Be Central To India’s Climate Change Response
This entry has been cross-posted on Reporting on a Revolution
A friend returned from Australia with stories of water rationing in Melbourne and Adelaide. Can’t water lawns and wash cars. That would invite fines from the city. Coincidentally, national geographic magazine has a feature on Australia’s big dry, a prolonged drought that has decimated farming communities [...]
Government Releases Key Answers to India’s Position on Climate Change
Climate Change has become an urgent and pervasive preoccupation across the globe. It is a global challenge which requires an ambitious global response. India and other developing countries would be among those most seriously impacted by the consequences of Climate Change. It is for this reason that India, along with its G-77 + China [...]
India’s National Action Plan on climate change: There is little hope here
PRESS RELEASE February 27, 2009
The plan will help neither the climate, nor the poor
NAPCC lacks urgency, democracy and equity perspective
By: Himanshu Thakkar
The South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People has just published a critique of the India’s National Action Plan on Climate change (NAPCC), titled: “There is little Hope here”. India is more vulnerable [...]
Groundwater Map of India and Farmer Suicides
At Cryology and Co. David Bressan has a post on world wide groundwater resources maps produced by the “World-wide Hydrological Mapping and Assessment Programme” (WHYMAP). Following the link he provided I found a groundwater map of India on that site. The map below is actually from the web mapping application and attempts to give a [...]
Some Examples of Climate Change Illiteracy
This entry has been cross posted at Reporting on a Revolution.
Following on the heels of my previous post in which I attempted to put up arguments in favor of human induced global warming, a stark and scary reminder of what I am up against. A couple of example of climate change illiteracy I picked up [...]
North Pole is an Island for First Time in 125,000 years
As news of islands being submerged by rising sea levels, its no comfort that we have a new island on Earth, as of today — the North Pole. For the first time in 125,000 years, the North Pole’s polar ice cap has become a complete island, as satellite images taken by NASA in the United [...]
