The availability of open, high-quality, consistent, and comprehensive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data is essential to understanding the global trend in GHG emissions, and for countries to see their
No global climate change pact could be fruitful without including India and China, US president George Bush said on Sunday as leaders from G8 nations prepared to thrash out a long-term deal to face global warming. "I'll be constructive,' Bush said after talks with Japanese premier Yasuo Fukuda, but "we're not going to solve the problem' unless those two fast-growing economies take part in any long-term deal,' Japanese media reported.
The Manmohan-Bush summit in the sidelines of the G8 summit in Hokkaido is expected to work out a tentative plan of action for the next two stages, of the nuclear deal
Mumbai, July 04 WET WEEKEND AHEAD Met office forecasts thundershowers or spells of rain with gusty winds; 4.84-metre high tide likely today With the second highest high tide of this monsoon season forecast on Saturday afternoon at 4.84 metres and the Indian Meteorological Department also predicting spells of rain or thundershowers with gusty winds, Mumbaiites are gearing up for a possibly wet weekend. Over the past years, the city has seen severe waterlogging when high tide is over 4.5 metres during heavy rain.
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DOWN TO EARTH Sunita Narain / New Delhi July 04, 2008, 0:00 IST We need a way ahead
Continuous Global Positioning System observations reveal rapid and large ice velocity fluctuations in the western ablation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Within days, ice velocity reacts to increased meltwater production and increases by a factor of 4. Such a response is much stronger and much faster than previously reported. Over a longer period of 17 years, annual ice velocities have decreased slightly, which suggests that the englacial hydraulic system adjusts constantly to the variable meltwater input, which results in a more or less constant ice flux over the years.
Much of the scientific and public focus on anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions have been on climate impacts. Emission targets have been suggested based primarily on arguments for preventing climate from shifting significantly from its preindustrial state. However, recent studies underline a second major impact of carbon emissions: ocean acidification. Over the past 200 years, the oceans have take up `40% of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions. This uptake shows the rise in atmospheric CO2 considerably, thus alleviating climate change caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.
Measuring the costs and benefits of projects intended to offset the emission of greenhouse gases is one of many thorny issues that the state of California must tackle as it begins drafting a cap-and-trade system of carbon credits.
