A unique geography -- and soot and dust -- conspire against Himalayan glaciers
Monday, December 14, 2009 - 19:28
in Astronomy & Space
"So many disparate elements, both natural and man-made, converge in the Himalayas," said William Lau, a climatologist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "There's no other place in the world that could produce such a powerful atmospheric heat pump," referring to a new hypothesis he's put forward to explain the rapid retreat of Himalayan glaciers in recent decades. ...