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Climate change and extreme weather events mortality in India
This document contains the presentation by Rais Akhtar on Climate change and extreme weather events mortality in India, presented at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
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- Mar 2010
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- Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Tropical cyclones and permanent El Nino in the early Pliocene epoch
The early Pliocene (5 to 3 million years ago) is the period in the geological past believed to be the closest analogue to contemporary global warming. Palaeoclimate data suggest that there were persistent El Niño-like conditions with near-constant sea surface temperatures across the tropical Pacific.
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- Feb 2010
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- Nature Vol: 463 Issue: 7284 pp: 1066-1071
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Tropical cyclones in the mix
What was responsible for the unusual climatic conditions that prevailed
during the early Pliocene, 5 million to 3 million years ago? Modelling studies point to intense tropical-cyclone activity as a possible answer.
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- Feb 2010
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- Nature Vol: 463 Issue: 7284 pp: 1032-1033
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Signs of global warming
KOCHI: With the Indian Meteorological Department stating that last year was hotter than the previous years, the focus has once again turned to climatic changes due to global warming.
One of the most comprehensive papers that looked at the various factors has been from the scientists at the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa.
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- 22/02/2010
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- New Indian Express (Kochi)
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Call for concerted efforts to tackle climate change
PUDUCHERRY: Data collection, effective communication to all parties, mitigation efforts and target setting are the steps that must be involved in the policy strategy of countries, in order to deal with climate change, said Julian Hunt, Emeritus Professor for Climate Modelling, University College London, and Honorary Professor of University of Cambridge.
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- 17/02/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Farmers worry over cloudy sky, possible rains
Bhopal: Due to cyclone condition developed in the upper strata of Eastern Madhya Pradesh there may be rains in eastern part of the state. The recent hailstorm and rains has damaged crops in these areas to a great extent. The clouds formed in the sky may prove damaging to the farmers.
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- 17/02/2010
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- Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
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Eco-friendly houses for Aila victims
The state government is planning to set up 20 eco-friendly houses at Sunderbans for victims of cyclone Aila.
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- 03/02/2010
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- Statesman (Kolkata)
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Aila grant for Bengal
The Centre has promised Rs 5,032 crore to repair Aila-damaged embankments and Rs 530 crore for flood control in East and West Midnapore, a team of Bengal MLAs said after meetings here today.
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- 30/01/2010
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- Telegraph (Kolkata)
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Time to disband populist measures (editorial)
SUBOL Mondal, a 55-year-old smalltime farmer, at Dayapur village in the Sunderban forests, West Bengal, is very particular to keep his date with the local banker every month. He is servicing a 15-year loan, at subsidised interest rates, and paying out an equated monthly instalment (EMI) of Rs 900 in the beginning of the month is not a mean job.
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- 25/01/2010
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- Economic Times (New Delhi)
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Phyan: IMD blames lack of data, equipment
Two months after warnings about cyclonic storm ‘Phyan’ sparked widespread panic along the country’s western coast and sent Mumbai to the verge of a complete shutdown, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday said that those predictions were not entirely correct and blamed it on inadequate data from the Arabian Sea, a shortage of tide gauges and the absence of a Doppler Radar
- Date:
- 08/01/2010
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- Indian Express (New Delhi)
