Climate Change Archives

13 Feb

Socio-economic equality- a critical aspect of climate mitigation strategy.

Amruta Joshi0 CommentsClimate Education, Climate Changeclimate technology

The 21st century has witnessed occurrences of some of the worst natural calamities as a result of climate change and has therefore seen a lot of action in terms of climate mitigation, right from the surge in climate technologies to the amendment or formation of policies of decarbonization of various sectors. However, what is also happening in the 21st century is that the gap between the poor and rich is constantly increasing with the rich getting richer and the poor even poorer. Although the two scenarios seem to be independent like chapters from two unrelated books, the issues are much…

Geothermal Energy to solve the energy crisis?

Climapreneur0 CommentsClimate Change, Climate Education, Innovation

Amidst the deteriorating climatic condition and exhaustion of existing conventional energy sources, mankind is on a constant lookout for a renewable and clean energy source. Geothermal energy seems to be a suitable contender capable of contributing to our fight against climate change and fulfilling the ever-increasing energy demand. The field has come to a new light with the invention of new tools and developed technology, however, geothermal energy has been a reliable source of heating systems for centuries as evidenced by archaeological research. The naturally occurring hot springs have been a famous retreat and recoup site for people since long…

Entering the human Epoch, Anthropocene.

Amruta Joshi0 CommentsClimate Change, Climate EducationAnthropocene, climate research, climate science

Much like we have a biological clock, earth has its own geological clock, the only difference is that it spreads over millions and billions of years and our lifetime is merely a matter of seconds in it. Earth’s history is segmented into different phases based on the geological clock. The change in the geological time unit is marked by significant changes in the features such as the sedimentation pattern of rocks and fossil makeup. Thus, the study of rock strata (stratigraphy) is an important tool to find out the geological timescale shift. Another parameter considered to study the shift in…