Climate Change in Himalaya

The topic of this week Global Environmental Change Seminar is GeoEngineering - known as ‘plan B’ - to counteract or mitigate the effects of climate change particularly driven by greenhouse gases. From Crutzen, P.J.paper 2006 to present, there has been a surge of attention to it along with debates.  Such an intentional intervention to ‘engineer’ the planet has two categories broadly referred as carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM) .  With good intention to address the climate challenges, the geoengineering proposals are largely theoretical and lack of scientific modelling and empirical research. The most difficult obstacle is the  governance,  legal and management  uncertainties .  The future climate projects leave us with a number of questions and an indeterminate picture of everything we would do to respond to what have done to the planet. The U.N. defines “dangerous anthropogenic interference” as  inadvertent climate...