The Other Climate Changers: Why Black Carbon and Ozone Also Matter
The Other Climate Changers | Foreign Affairs By Jessica Seddon Wallack and Veerabhadran Ramanathan Summary — Most initiatives to slow global warming involve reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Little...
View ArticleUp in Smoke: Black Carbon’s Role in Climate Change
[Update: I am moving to a once-a-week blog post. Check here each Tuesday for a brand new entry of Brave Blue Words!] The most significant anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) is carbon dioxide, CO2....
View ArticleProject Surya Aims to Clear the Air and Reduce Global Warming
Welcome to Blog Action Day 2009! Starting early this morning in the Far East until late tonight in the Pacific Islands, more than 8,700 bloggers from 148 countries are stimulating a global conversation...
View ArticleAltering the Abyss: Deep-Sea Ecosystems Affected By Climate Change
The abyssal plains, regions of the ocean below 2000 meters, cover 60% of the Earth’s surface. Scientists have long believed that the ecosystems located at these depths are relatively isolated and...
View ArticleHave the Oceans Had Enough? Largest Carbon Sink May Be Slowing Down
More than half of the CO2 emitted by human activities each year are taken up by natural carbon sinks, on land and in the ocean. However, recent studies suggest that anthropogenic emissions may be...
View ArticleWinds of Change: How Black Carbon Affects the South Asian Monsoon
In the previous post, I wrote about how the glaciers of the ‘Third Pole’ – the greater Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau region – are melting at a dramatic rate (just not as fast as mistakenly stated in the...
View Article“Nothing Happend in Copenhagen. Why?”
The e-course I am taking, “Global Warming in a Still Unequal World,” taught by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in India, opens with this assignment: Write an essay of approximately 500...
View ArticleBrave Blue Worlds: An Update
Brave Blue Words has been offline for a few months, due to technical difficulties. All that has been resolved and I am happy to report that your favorite ocean and climate science blog will be back...
View ArticleSpeeding Up Natural CO2 Reduction and Saving the Oceans at the Same Time
The planet is warming. The release of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, from the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities, is causing global temperatures and sea levels to rise, glaciers to...
View ArticleClear and Present Danger: Overwhelming Ourselves into Apathy
After covering a AAAS session on science and the media in my blog post last week, I’d planned to focus on another titled “Adapting to a Clear and Present Danger: Climate Change and Ocean Ecosystems.”...
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