June 5, 2011 was World Environment Day! Some parts of Kathmandu were bubbling with positive energy with treehuggers spreading awareness on sustainable consumption and environmental awareness. I hoped to contribute my fair share by taking likeminded individuals (tree huggers) to a free screening of a documentary – “The age of Read more…
I was at the international training school on Atmospheric brown clouds (ABC) held in Kathmandu yesterday. The international school held every two years, by internationally prominent atmospheric scientists, provide a theoretical background and an overview of current knowledge on various aspects of atmospheric brown clouds and climate change. The fourth Read more…
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International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development – ICIMOD‘s Asia Pacific Mountain Network (APMN) is just out with its winter issue. This special issue on ‘Youth and Climate Change’ has been compiled to underscore the International Year of Youth (IYY) 2010-2011; COP 16 in Cancun, Mexico; and the increasing interest of young people in taking part in activities related to climate change issues. It contains the views of young people, information about various opportunities, an APMN youth activity review, and other features. This issue was formally launched by Mr. Daan Boom, APMN Coordinator and Integrated Knowledge Management Programme Manager, ICIMOD, coinciding with COP 16 meeting later today.
Annexed below is my review of ‘Climate Change – Youth Guide to Action’ published in the very same. (more…)
The review of the book appears in the current issue of the Asia-Pacific Mountain Courier (AP Mountain Courier) on ‘mountain biodiversity’. The issue is available online and in print, and is distributed free of cost to interested stakeholders.
Mountaineer, photographer and filmmaker (director and leader of the Everest IMAX team) David Breashears is in the limelight again because of his “Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya” exhibition. Part of his Glacier Research Imaging Project (GRIP), David and his team, will undertake “repeat photography” of the Himalayan region and the Tibetan plateau by following the footsteps of mountaineers from the past 110 years. He has meticulously reproduced photographs of the Main Rongbuk glacier north of the Everest summit after George L. Mallory (who first took it in 1921 AD) after a period of eighty six years.
David Breashears compares the Rhonbuk glacier in 2007 with a b/w photograph taken by Mallory eighty six years ago
Source: low res screen capture from e360.yale.edu [link] (more…)
Its been a while since the shit hit the fan. I found this post in my archives; never did go about publishing it.
There was the CRU-Gate also known as Climate Gate where emails of the scientists within the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) got hacked and was made publicly available.
Himalaya Gate and a whole lot of other Gates (Amazon GATE) cropped up just around the Copenhagen meet. (more…)
I get confused by the whole adaption vs mitigation quagmire. Under which bandwagon are such actions like resorting to sustainable consumption, reducing our carbon footprints, switching to a local producers and minimising air travel (where applicable) classified? My personal understanding is they are responses that we as individuals make in Read more…
While declaring a “national energy crisis” in Nepal, our government green signaled a plan to develop a 200 MW thermal plant. Generating power eight hours a day for 240 days in a year, the plant will incur a yearly loss of more than Rs 5 billion (which too will be Read more…
I spent a greater half of yesterday evening reading about a to-be-released film –The age of Stupid from director Franny Armstrong (of Mclibel and Baked Alaska) and producer John Battsek. A brief synopsis posted on the web summarises of an archivist played by Pete Postlethwaite (from In the name of Read more…
Climate Change is not a myth but a natural process and it seems we humans have had quite a role in accelerating it, hence the mention of “anthropogenic emissions” wherever and whenever climate change is mentioned. Reducing the carbon footprint comes as a viable alternative that conscious citizens from developed Read more…
