20th century warmest in 1400 years: Study
Global warming over the 20th century has produced the hottest global average temperatures in 1400 years, a major scientific study has found. Scientists have found that the period between 1971-2000 was
Global warming over the 20th century has produced the hottest global average temperatures in 1400 years, a major scientific study has found. Scientists have found that the period between 1971-2000 was
Voicing concern over "painfully slow" progress in climate talks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the goal of stabilising global temperatures was "nowhere in sight" and called for individual countries to take action to increase energy efficiency. While inaugurating the Fourth Clean Energy Ministerial, Singh also made it clear that rich nations, who were responsible for a bulk of greenhouse gas emissions, were best placed to provide workable solutions to mitigate climate change.
Goal for stabilising global temperatures nowhere in sight, he laments India had launched a new initiative to double the renewable energy capacity to 55,000 MW by 2017 by exploiting non-conventional energy sources such as solar, wind power and energy from biomass, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here on Wednesday. Delivering the inaugural address at the fourth Clean Energy Ministerial here, Dr. Singh however, expressed serious concern at the “painfully slow” progress of climate change talks. He regretted that the goal of stabilising global temperatures at acceptable levels was nowhere in sight.
Voicing concern over “painfully slow” progress in climate talks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the goal of stabilising global temperatures was “nowhere in sight” and pitched for individual countries to take action to increase energy efficiency. Dr. Singh also made it clear that rich nations, who were responsible for a bulk of greenhouse gas emissions, were best placed to provide workable solutions to mitigate climate change.
Scientists are struggling to explain a slowdown in climate change that has exposed gaps in their understanding and defies a rise in global greenhouse gas emissions. Often focused on century-long trends, most climate models failed to predict that the temperature rise would slow, starting around 2000. Scientists are now intent on figuring out the causes and determining whether the respite will be brief or a more lasting phenomenon.
Antarctic summer ice melt is now occurring 10 times faster than it did 600 years ago, with ice loss speeding up the most since mid-20th century, new research has warned. The 1000-year Antarctic Peninsula climate reconstruction was published in the journal Nature Geoscience. Summer ice melt affects the stability of Antarctic ice shelves and glaciers.
Feeling the heat A study was carried out by Scientists of Jammu’s Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture, Science and Technology to find decadal temperature trends across different zones of the state The focus was to study the rise in temperature over a 10-year period for 30 years. The average high in summer and winter temperature could be 1.2°C to 1.5°C, which is not a good sign for the Himalayan region, says the study
Summer ice in the Antarctic is melting 10 times quicker than it was 600 years ago, with the most rapid melt occurring in the last 50 years, a joint Australian-British study showed Monday. A research
Unlike in north India, where there is no respite from summer and the mercury just keeps soaring, the atmospheric temperature in the state used to remain constant almost throughout the summer months. Not
ITANAGAR: Following the slogan ‘each one, plant one for a green earth,’ the Green Pioneers in collaboration with the State Forest Department organized a tree plantation drive during which hundreds of saplings were planted in and around Donyi–Polo Mission School for Hearing and Visually Impaired at Chimpu here. The ‘green’ drive was initiated by the Green Pioneers via social networking sites to persuade the volunteers to take part in the noble deed.
Senate standing committee on climate change Monday apprised that Pakistan is ranked among top ten countries worst hit by impacts of climate change in shape of severe floods, torrential rains, rise in temperature
A recent study taken up by a team of researchers from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Chennai, brought to light the serious threat of extinction the coral reef colonies and mangrove forests in the Palk Bay are facing. At present, only two per cent of the coral reefs survive in the area. Global warming, siltation, release of untreated raw sewage into the water bodies and overgrowth of algae were stated to be the three important reasons for the possible disappearance of coral colonies and its associated organisms from the Palk Bay area.
Climate change could get worse quickly if huge amounts of extra heat absorbed by the oceans are released back into the air, scientists said after unveiling new research showing that oceans have helped
Climate change could get worse quickly if huge amounts of extra heat absorbed by the oceans are released back into the air, scientists said after unveiling new research showing that oceans have helped
LDC group's move can quicken pace of UN climate change talks, but richer countries will need to make firm commitments In what could be a far-reaching move, the world's poorest countries say they are
President Barack Obama pitched the first major environmental effort of his second term on Friday in a bid to slash smog-forming emissions from gasoline that have been linked to lung and heart ailments,
Prediction of monsoon changes in the coming decades is important for infrastructure planning and sustainable economic development. The decadal prediction involves both natural decadal variability and anthropogenic
This paper surveys the evidence on the ways in which economic development and policies aimed at advancing human development have contributed and currently contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and global
Climate change may be happening more slowly than scientists thought. But the world still needs to deal with it. It may come as a surprise to a walrus wondering where all the Arctic’s summer sea ice has
Climate scientists have linked the massive snowstorms and bitter spring weather now being experienced across Britain and large parts of Europe and North America to the dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice.