Glacial Melt

India likely to share glacier info with China, Pak

New Delhi, Feb. 16: Keen to study the Himalayan glaciers in their totality, the Department of Science and Technology (DST) has mooted a proposal to the ministry of external affairs (MEA) and the ministry of defence (MoD) to allow data-sharing on this crucial subject with China, Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan.

Publication Date:

17/02/2010

Source: Asian Age (New Delhi)

Tags:

Environment, Himalaya, Glaciers, Glacial Melt, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), China, Pakistan, India

Climate Change

High and dry

Soot-coated glaciers on a melting spree. Climate scientists have tagged the Himalayan glaciers to disappear by the end of this century. The Tibetan glaciers are in a bigger hurry to disappear, apparently. Courtesy: soot or black carbon that is increasing the sunlight-absorption capacity of the snow.

Publication Date:

16/02/2010

Author(s): Shompa Das

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

18

Issue:

19

pp:

45

Tags:

Himalaya, Water Resources, Glaciers, Rivers, Climate Change, Aerosols, Climate Impacts, Glacial Melt, India

Climate Change

Missing the wood for the trees

The IPCC

Publication Date:

13/02/2010

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

45

Issue:

7

pp:

8

Tags:

Himalaya, Climate Change, Climate Science, IPCC, Climate Impacts, Glacial Melt, Consumption Patterns

Climate Change

IPCC seeks 'broader community engagement' to correct errors

Amid mounting attacks on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a small number of its volunteer leadership has tried to respond to the horde of bloggers and reporters as well as explain themselves to colleagues. Prominent among them has been ecologist Christopher Field of the Carnegie Institution for Science. Science excerpts a 5 February phone interview with him.

Publication Date:

11/02/2010

Author(s): Eli Kintisch

Source: Science

Vol:

327

Issue:

5967

pp:

768

Tags:

Climate Change, IPCC, Climate Science, Glacial Melt, Scientists

Climate Change

On the Himalayan glaciers controversy

A huge controversy has been generated over the much quoted lines in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Publication Date:

06/02/2010

Author(s): Nagraj Adve

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

45

Issue:

6

pp:

4

Tags:

Himalaya, Climate Change, Climate Science, IPCC, Global Warming, Glacial Melt

Climate Change

Manmohan backs Pachauri

The PM emphasised that despite the recent criticism of the IPCC, the debate did not challenge its core projections on greenhouse gas accumulations affecting temperature, rainfall and sea level rise

Publication Date:

06/02/2010

Source: Asian Age (New Delhi)

Tags:

Himalaya, Climate Change, Glacial Melt, R K Pachauri

Climate Change

PM backs Pachauri, IPCC

Backing R K Pachauri, the beleaguered chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), who is under criticism for the goof-up in the organisation

Publication Date:

06/02/2010

Source: Business Standard (New Delhi)

Tags:

Himalaya, Climate Change, IPCC, Glacial Melt, R K Pachauri

Climate Change

Govt fully behind Pachauri: Ramesh

New Delhi: Environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday said the Indian government fully backed R K Pachauri, the beleaguered chairman of UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Even as he took potshots at the weakness of the global climate science panel over the recent controversial revelations, Ramesh said the government supported Pachauri

Publication Date:

05/02/2010

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Himalaya, Climate Change, IPCC, Glacial Melt, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), TERI, R K Pachauri, India

Climate Change