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, …
RASHME SEHGAL Defending himself against charges that he was responsible for the goof-up that Himalayan glaciers were set to disappear by 2035 in the fourth IPCC report, Dr Murari Lal, who had edited the section on Asia, said categorically, "We had quoted extensively from an interview that glaciologist Syed Hasnain …
THE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has presented a robust defence of its claim that the world had "suffered rapidly rising costs due to extreme weather related events since the 1970s" partly on account of global warming. This was part of the Fourth Assessment Report of 2007. Media reports suggested …
Kalpana Jain / New Delhi January 26, 2010, 0:55 IST Some aspects of global warming may not be entirely understood and data may be sparse, but scientists do not dispute that global temperature has increased, especially since 1950, as pointed out in the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel …
The Nobel-winning IPCC panel could end up with more egg on its face. It linked global warming to natural disasters in a 2007 report on climate change, warning that the world had
Insufficient Evidence Of Link; IPCC Knew But Kept Quiet Jonathan Leake The United Nations climate science panel faces a new controversy for wrongly linking global warming to a rise in natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods. It based the claims on an unpublished report that had not been subjected …
Controversy-ridden UN climate panel has said it is reassessing another of its claim for linking global warming to an increase in the number and severity of natural disasters, bringing fresh embarrassment to it. The latest criticism of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) comes after the panel admitted its …
New Delhi: Even as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been criticised over its claim on the melting of Himalayan glaciers, Environment Ministers of Brazil, South Africa, India and China came out in its support stating that
Cutting a sorry figure, the IPCC admitted its conclusion on melting of Himalayan glaciers by 2035 was based on "poorly substantiated" estimates while the scientist blamed for the goof-up pointed the finger at the expert who included the year in the UN report.Cutting a sorry figure, IPCC on Wednesday admitted …
