Dr. Vladimir Romanovsky on melting permafrost, methane and the risk of runaway global warming
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Dr. Vladimir Romanovsky
This week, Dr. Caldicott discusses the relationship between permafrost and climate with Dr. Vladimir E. Romanovsky, a Professor in Geophysics at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, where he heads
up the Geophysical Institute Permafrost Laboratory. Dr. Romanovsky’s research specialty is permafrost geophysics, with particular emphasis on the ground thermal regime, active layer and permafrost processes, and the relationships between permafrost, hydrology, biota and climate. In the interview,
Dr. Caldicott mentions former Soviet colonel Valery Yarynich. Col. Yarynich, Bruce Blair of the World Security Institute and others co-authored the article Smaller and Safer: A New Plan for Nuclear Postures, in the September/October 2010 issue of Foreign Affairs. As background on permafrost, read the September 20, 2010 article Artic Ice
in Death Spiral. Also see the September 7, 2006 article Scientists Find
New Global Warming ‘Time Bomb’ . Longer show description to follow.