"Popping Bubbles Make Glaciers Melt Faster" by Erin Martin-Jones
Published on Eos.org on 25 October 2023

Audio recording by Emily Dieckman
Glacier bubble audio provided by Erin Pettit

Popping Bubbles Make Glaciers Melt Faster

"How Llama Poop Is Helping an Andean Community Adapt to Melting Glaciers " by Sofia Moutinho
Published on Eos.org on 9 November 2023

Audio recording by Emily Dieckman

How Llama Poop Is Helping an Andean Community Adapt to Melting Glaciers

In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Vivek Srikrishnan about factors that contribute to sea level rise. Srikrishnan, an assistant professor at Cornell University, describes the difficulties involved in analyzing the impact of the complex factors related to climate and climate change, which in turn lead to uncertainties in projecting the extent of future sea level rise. In a new publication, Srikrishnan and coauthors model different scenarios that capture those uncertainties. Srikrishnan also points out how short-lived greenhouse gases can lead to greater ice melt compared to more persistent greenhouse gases, as well as the irreversible nature of ice melts.

References and recommendations:

“The interplay of future emissions and geophysical uncertainties for projections of sea-level rise” by Chloe Darnell, Lisa Rennels, Frank Errickson, Tony Wong, and Vivek Srikrishnan; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02457-0

“The Earth Transformed” by Peter Frankopan; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/635264/the-earth-transformed-by-peter-frankopan/

Understanding Uncertainty in Climate Change and Sea Level Rise, with Vivek Srikrishnan

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