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Talk on climate change
KOCHI: Environment activists and scientists across the world have warned of shrinking of glaciers. But, are these glaciers in grave danger? Scientists involved in research on climate change have attempted to quantify the causes of the shrinking of these glaciers.
Surabi Menon, scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US, and co-author of the Nobel Peace prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report-2007, has set out to isolate the impacts of the most commonly blamed culprit — greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide — from other particles in the air that may be causing the melting.
Dr. Menon and her collaborators have found that airborne black carbon aerosols or soot are major contributors to the decline in snow and ice cover on the glaciers.
Dr. Menon would be speaking on climate change impacts on Friday at a programme organised by Society of Energy Engineers and Managers at Petro House, Kundanoor, 6.30 p.m.
Source:www.hindu.com