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Window to act on climate change is closing fast

For India, preemptive urban climate adaptation will be key in enduring the warming crisis ahead. An “atlas of human suffering” is how UN secretary general António Guterres described the second instalment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) sixth assessment report which was released on Monday. The IPCC has talked about projected regional climate-change …

Climate change: Mumbai at high flood risk; Heat, humidity to make India uninhabitable if emissions not cut

The IPCC report notes that India is among the most vulnerable countries in terms of the population that can be affected by a sea-level rise. Mumbai is at a high risk of severe flooding and rise in sea level, the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has warned. The IPCC on Monday released the …

Climate change: First-ever US intel report on global warming includes India in 11 highly vulnerable nations — check details

The report also has a section which argues about who bears the responsibility to act. US intel report on climate change: The US intelligence’s assessment of climate change has come out and as per the report, India and Pakistan are among the 11 highly vulnerable countries in terms of their ability to prepare for as …

Climate Change: How is global warming likely to impact the El Nino and La Nina events?

The team looked at what would happen to ENSO when the level of carbon dioxide doubled and quadrupled. Climate Change: There is no doubt that El Nino and La Nina are very important natural climate phenomena occurring over the Pacific Ocean. This is because they impact and influence the weather conditions prevalent all over the …

Global warming: Arctic’s ‘Last Ice Area’ shows signs of melting much earlier than anticipated; Check details here

LIA is a key area that scientists were banking upon to support ice-dependent species when the nearby ice was melting away. (Image: Felix Linhardt/Kiel University) Climate change: The ‘Last Ice Area’, located in the Arctic’s Ice north of Greenland, has started melting earlier than what the scientists had expected, as the scientific community had deemed …

Climate change: Energy imbalance on Earth doubled since 2005, causing the planet to heat up

The changes in the climate are causing several issues all over the world Climate change: In what can be called a worrying disclosure, a study by scientists as US’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has revealed that between 2005 and 2019, the energy imbalance on Earth doubled. …

Geo Engineering: Elite American scientific body calls for govt funding of research on controversial climate action approach

The risks and the likely gains from such interventions need to be studied carefully before governments commit to these. Representative Image An elite, public-funded scientific institution in a developed economy urging its government to consider a controversial warming-mitigation intervention is perhaps a telling commentary on what hope there is of meaningful climate action. As per …