The Working Group III report provides an updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges, and examines the sources of global emissions. It explains developments in emission reduction and mitigation efforts, assessing the impact of national climate pledges in relation to long-term emissions goals. An emissions gap persists, …
The collapse of an ice sheet in Antarctica up to 14,650 years ago might have caused sea levels to rise between 14 and 18 metres (46-60 feet), a study showed on Wednesday, data which could help make more accurate climate change predictions. The melting of polar ice could contribute to …
A future on Earth of more extreme weather and rising seas will require better planning for natural disasters to save lives and limit deepening economic losses, the United Nations said on Wednesday in a major report on the effects of climate change. The U.N. climate panel said all nations will …
Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, an international panel of climate scientists says in a report issued Wednesday. The greatest danger from extreme weather is in highly populated, poor regions …
Research Team Braves Frostbite & Steep Climb, Surveys Chhota Shigri Glacier, Says Depletion Greater In Past Decade. Worried about the day when the Himalayan glaciers have melted, the Yamuna is a marsh and your taps have run dry? It’s unlikely to happen soon. Scientists from JNU’s School of Environmental Sciences …
India has attempted to re-introduce differentiation between developed and developing countries, the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, in the discussions on emission reduction under the Durban Platform. The agreement arrived at Durban to embark on a new global regime, including all countries had been silent on the issue of …
The world's oceans are turning acidic at what could be the fastest pace of any time in the past 300 million years, even more rapidly than during a monster emission of planet-warming carbon 56 million years ago, scientists said on Thursday. Looking back at this bygone warm period in Earth's …
U.S. scientists using satellite data have established a more accurate figure of the amount of annual sea level rise from melting glaciers and ice caps which should aid studies on how quickly coastal areas may flood as global warming gathers pace. John Wahr of the University of Colorado in Boulder …
A summit meeting of heads of government is needed to strengthen global ambition on climate change — we should start preparing now, says Michael Jacobs.
This climate education booklet is aimed at explaining the basic concepts of climate change, and the politics around the climate change debate and action. It examines the issues faced by us in the semi-arid regions of this country, and looks at the options before us. This booklet is a part …
Much media reporting of climate change exaggerates its impact, it’s necessary to get real now Extreme weather is often said to be one of the main reasons for taking firm action on global warming. Nowadays, no hurricane or heat wave passes without an activist claiming it as evidence of the …
India faces the onerous task of balancing equity and environmental efficacy in the climate talks. It must not repeat the blunder that led to the Copenhagen disaster. THE climate conference in Durban, South Africa, could not have met at a worse or more worrying time. Rigorous scientific work has just …
Leaders who wait for further evidence about the perils of greenhouse gases are flirting with escapism, the head of the UN’s Nobel-winning climate scientists says. “You cannot possibly keep waiting forever for new evidence of global warming to act,” Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), …
Science is married to evidence. this evidence is from measurement, observation and experiment. Predictions from a computer are not evidence, especially as computers can be programmed to give a desired answer. A conclusion is reached on the basis of transparent and repeatable evidence. This can be tested with new independent …
The planet keeps getting hotter and hotter. In many regions, people are experiencing climate change at first hand. However, when it comes to the issue of a binding climate agreement, politicians struggle to make progress.
The weather may not always have been kind to cocoa farmers in West Africa, but until recently it was at least broadly predictable. Temperature always hovered between 22 and 29 degrees Celsius, rains fell between April and July -- plus another short period between October and mid-November -- and the …
An increase in heat waves is almost certain, while heavier rainfall, more floods, stronger cyclones, landslides and more intense droughts are likely across the globe this century as the Earth's climate warms, U.N. scientists said on Friday. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) urged countries to come up …
Calcutta, Nov. 18: The world is likely to get 10 times hotter in the next 90 years, a report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said. The report links the rise in temperatures to the “high greenhouse gas emission scenario” caused by human activity. It says …
