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 serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
the Kyoto meeting ended in high drama with environmen-talists across the world on tenterhooks. The conference went on through the night of December 10, its last day, trying to resolve the major disagreements between different parties. Ultimately, the conference had to cobble together an agreement in time to allow participants …
The Berlin Summit at first appeared to be a no-win battle between the environmentalists and the oil and coal lobby. The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), supported by environmentalists, pushed the industrialised countries to cut emissions by 20 per cent by 2000. But the proposal failed to get support …
A poll conducted by the New York Times barely a fortnight before the Kyoto negotiations found that people in the US are far more willing than their government to take early action on global warming. About 65 per cent of those polled said that the US should take steps now …
The British Meteorological Office (BMO) announced that November 1996 to November 1997 was the planet's hottest year on record. The BMO's Hadley Centre for climate research and scientists from University of East Anglia's climate research unit in the UK said that they estimated the average surface temperature of the planet …
for the Kyoto municipality, it was going to be a big event. Though its finances were in a bad shape, the people of this ancient capital of Japan had agreed to host an international conference on combating what appears to be the world's biggest environmental threat. A Kyoto protocol on …
For 10 days in Kyoto the world saw highly moral arguments put forward by world leaders to save the planet. But behind all those arguments was murky national self-interest. Anil Agarwal and Anju Sharma give an eyewitness account of the widely-publicised squabbling between the governments of the world
global warming and climate change has been one of the most widely debated subjects in the past years. The conflict is not limited to political interests, but extends to scientific interpretation of data. Modelling climate change has yielded contradictory results. Some scenarios are too pessimistic, while others appear too optimistic. …
The weather is a complex system and a number of factors influence it. Chief among them are the rotation of the planet which helps give direction to the winds. This disturbance in the atmosphere takes the form of a giant heat exchange system with hot air moving from the tropics …
In the 1920s, Sir Gilbert Walker made the seminal connection between barometer readings of air pressure at sea level at stations on the eastern and western sides of the Pacific Ocean (Tahiti and Darwin, Australia). He observed that when pressure rises in the east, it usually falls in the west, …
even as Japan expressed doubts whether the industrialised countries would agree to cut down greenhouse gas ( ghg ) emissions at the third Conference of Parties ( cop -3) in Kyoto, developed countries came in for criticism for not honouring their commitments to the un Framework Convention on Climate Change …
