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 …
An in-depth analysis of ten climate indicators all point to a marked warming over the past three decades, with the most recent decade being the hottest on record, according to the latest of the U.S. National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration's annual "State of the Climate" reports, which was released Wednesday. …
The main motivation of this comprehensive study is to understand climatological and fluctuation features of the extreme rainfall events (EREs) considering detailed account of spatial variability of rainfall occurrences. Experiences suggest that the EREs are embedded in the large-scale, long period intense rainfall activities during the summer monsoon period. It …
Extreme wave events of 1000 and 1500 years (radiocarbon ages) have been recently reported in Mahabalipuram region, southeast coast of India. Subsequently, we carried out extensive sedimentological analysis in regions covering a total lateral coverage of 12 km with a new archeological site as the central portion of the study …
If mitigation is about energy, adaptation is about water. This is the opening statement of a new essay on water and adaptation, written by two of the worlds leading profiles in the water sector, professor Torkil J
Global climate models predict a rise in extreme weather in the next century. To better understand future interactions among adaptation costs, socioeconomic development, and climate change in developing countries, observed losses of life from floods and droughts during 1960
This paper identifies key challenges and solutions for carrying out project-level economic analysis of adaptation to climate change, both stand-alone and integrated into broader development projects. Very few projects addressing adaptation thus far have been subject to in-depth and rigorous economic analysis for a variety of reasons, including a lack …
The summer of 2010 has just begun, and India is already reeling under extreme temperatures as the mercury climbs unprecedented heights. This unusual rise in summer temperatures could be connected due to global warming says CSE. See Also Report: Global climate in 2009 : WMO www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/302056 Report: Daily gridded temperature …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi April 05, 2010, 0:29 IST Climate change has begun to affect human health, leading to a rise in cases related to stomach ailments and vector-borne diseases like malaria and dengue. This has been indicated in a report in the recent bulletin of the World Health …
Emerging opportunities to capitalize on co-benefits of urban pollution and global climate policy: a paper presented by Dr. Sarath Guttikunda, Delhi at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
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. This paper highlights the impact of climate change & variability including rising temperature, heavy precipitation, increase in heat wave and cold …
Climate change and water governance in Delhi: legends, tales and plans by Ananda Vadivelu, Shailly Kedia presented at the National Climate Research Conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
This document contains the presentation on the role of cloud-aerosol interactions in climate change by G. Pandithurai, IITM, Pune at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010. Aerosol indirect effects (AIE) are generally referred to any aerosol induced modification of cloud microphysical properties (first AIE), cloud life time …
Extreme weather events and natural disasters such as drought or floods can have a devastating impact on food security as well as the social and economic development of rural households. In recent years, an increasing number of initiatives have tested weather index-based insurance to help manage these risks in agriculture. …
This paper assesses the high financial vulnerability to the impacts of extreme weather events of national governments, in particular developing countries and small island states. It highlights three main implications: (i) efforts to reduce risk need to be ramped-up to lessen the serious human and financial burdens; (ii) there is …
Climate change is a term that almost every educated person uses today. Hot days, as summer approaches, are quickly interpreted as tangible signs of global warming. Sudden, unanticipated events like torrential downpours and floods seem to immediately conjure up visions of a rapid change of the global climate cycle. Much …
The people of Tajikistan, a small, mountainous country in Central Asia, are experiencing the impacts of climate change. More frequent droughts and heightened extreme weather conditions are hitting poor communities, eroding their resilience. The country
Aid agencies are well resourced and quick to act, but not enough of them appear to be using their power to tackle the long term problems posed by climate change. Aid agencies are first on the scene of many of the world's trouble spots, and often play a huge role …
