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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IPCC studies robust, says Pachauri
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman R K Pachauri has dismissed as
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Statement by Delhi Paltform on the Himalayan Glaciers controversy
The latest statement by Delhi Platform on Himalayan glacial melt controversy. Says that critics have missed key issues and have ignored impacts & perceptions of people who live in the vicinity of glaciers.
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Pachauri defiant, says charges against IPCC unfounded
New Delhi: For Rajendra Pachauri, the ordeal is never-ending. Repeatedly being dragged in the eye of the storm for the
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Date wrong, science credible
Sunita Narain, director, Centre of Science and Environment, says that her past battles with IPCC chief R.K. Pachauri do not detract from the truth of climate change and that climate skeptics should not take advantage of the `date mistake' in the IPCC report on Himalayan glaciers. Excerpts from an interview: What is your reaction to the whole glacier controversy?
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Let the sunlight in on climate change
The IPCC was tasked by the governments of the world to deliver an encyclopedic consensus on the state of knowledge about one of the most far-reaching yet divisive questions of our time. And this grouping of thousands of scientists, taking time out from their regular jobs has, for more than two decades, delivered.
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Himalayan meltdown (editorial)
Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the earth keeps warming at the current rate.
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Himalayan glaciers here to stay
Melting Is Normal, No Threat Of Rivers Drying Up, Say Glaciologists Anand Bodh | TNN Chandigarh: Glaciers are here to stay in the Himalayas. Studies conducted by glaciologists across the Himalayan region in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand have shown that global warming has little to do with their melting.
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Science and fiction
The admission by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that it grossly overstated the rate at which Himalayan glaciers were receding has hurt the credibility of the institution considerably. It is all very well for the IPCC to defend itself by saying that this was just one page in a report of over 3,000 pages.
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One expert blames another on glaciers
RASHME SEHGAL