State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Glacial Melt
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Assessing changes snow and glacier melt runoff
Assessing changes snow and glacier melt runoff by Anil V Kulkarni presented at the National Climate Research Conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
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New estimate of Alaska's glacier melt
Overestimated: Previous studies have largely overestimated mass loss from Alaskan glaciers over the past 40-plus years.
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Himalayan glacier report rigorous, says Martin Parry
DAVID ADAM The scientist at the centre of the storm over mistakes by the UN
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Glaciers are indeed melting fast, says expert
Julian Hunt displays evidence from Beijing Climate Centre study CHENNAI: Supporting the argument on glacier melt, Julian Hunt, Emeritus Professor of Climate Modelling, University of Cambridge, U.K., showed evidence from a Chinese study to state that glaciers are indeed melting fast.
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No doubt, Himalayan glaciers are melting fast: Pachauri
Rahi Gaikwad Mumbai: Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which came under fire for an error in predicting that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035, said on Tuesday that the contentions of snowfall discrediting the meltdown were incorrect and there was no ambiguity that the glaciers were melting.
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India likely to share glacier info with China, Pak
New Delhi, Feb. 16: Keen to study the Himalayan glaciers in their totality, the Department of Science and Technology (DST) has mooted a proposal to the ministry of external affairs (MEA) and the ministry of defence (MoD) to allow data-sharing on this crucial subject with China, Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan.
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High and dry
Soot-coated glaciers on a melting spree. Climate scientists have tagged the Himalayan glaciers to disappear by the end of this century. The Tibetan glaciers are in a bigger hurry to disappear, apparently. Courtesy: soot or black carbon that is increasing the sunlight-absorption capacity of the snow.
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Missing the wood for the trees
The IPCC
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IPCC seeks 'broader community engagement' to correct errors
Amid mounting attacks on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a small number of its volunteer leadership has tried to respond to the horde of bloggers and reporters as well as explain themselves to colleagues. Prominent among them has been ecologist Christopher Field of the Carnegie Institution for Science. Science excerpts a 5 February phone interview with him.
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On the Himalayan glaciers controversy
A huge controversy has been generated over the much quoted lines in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change