Short affidavit on behalf of the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board (RSPCB) in terms of the National Green Tribunal order dated January 22, 2025. The application was registered suo motu by the NGT on the basis of a news item titled "Toxic kilns pollution Aravallis; wildlife and locals suffer" appearing …
Indian Scientist Included In IPCC Bureau INDIA on Thursday stepped forward to express support for the beleaguered chairman of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change R K Pachauri. But the support came after Mr Pachauri agreed to accommodate an Indian scientist from the environment ministry in the IPCC Bureau as …
Hasan Suroor LONDON: Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), on Wednesday admitted that its credibility was damaged by the controversy over its 2007 report, which falsely claimed that the Himalayan glaciers could melt away by 2035. But he refused to apologise, saying he was …
Facing severe criticism in the wake of revelations that its landmark 2007 report contained some highly embarrassing mistakes, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Wednesday defended its procedures and said any report as wide-ranging and voluminous as the one it produced could not be
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. This document contains the statement by Delhi Platform on the Himalayan glaciers issue. It recommends both the …
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: …
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 …
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. Its total area will likely …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
