The thermometer will hit upper nineties again today in Washington, DC., but it’s been a pretty mild summer until now – in fact, July was slightly cooler than average. That wasn’t the case up north, way up north, in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada. In this seaside town 1,500 miles north of Seattle and well within [...]
Posts Tagged ‘black carbon’
6 Aug
Relations between India and China: Thawing over melting Himalayas?
Last weekend, India’s Environment Minister Jairem Ramesh announced that academic researchers in India and China would share information as part of a cooperative scientific investigation into the health of the Himalayan glaciers, called the Water Towers of Asia. He added that New Delhi was open to a dialog with Beijing over water resources, saying that [...]
30 Jul
A Talk About Black Carbon by Dr. V. Ramanathan
Today, I attended an excellent talk by Dr. V. Ramanathan at the World Bank in Washington, DC. Dr. Ramanathan, of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, is the leading expert on the effects of non-CO2 greenhouse gases on climate change. In the past decade, Dr. Ramanathan has turned his [...]
