Climate change is a topic for hot debate across countries right now, but is it possible to predict future climate change? Researchers at Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen said that climate change probably occurs as a result of different chaotic influences and as a result would be difficult to predict. The most

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Quite a large number of dams are being planned on the Himalayan rivers by water planners of the Government of India and of the state governments. But environmentalists feel that its consequence will be catastrophic. In fact, a report submitted to the environment ministry revealed that Tehri dam which is the world’s fifth largest had

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Exclusive: ‘Skeptical Environmentalist’ and critic of climate scientists to declare global warming a chief concern facing world. The world’s most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is “undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today” and “a challenge humanity must confront”, in an apparent U-turn that will give a

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Political action seems again improbable, but it remains more urgent than ever. Editorial: Climate change now reveals itself on a weekly basis. Scientists this month identified a colony of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which carries both yellow fever and the dengue virus, in the Netherlands. This African insect had not been seen in Europe for

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The world is heading for the next major climate change conference in Cancun later this year on course for global warming of up to 3.5C in the coming century, a series of scientific analyses suggest. The failure of last December’s UN climate summit in Copenhagen means that cuts in carbon emissions pledged by the international

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Global-Warming Evangelist Pachauri Began His Career Building Diesel Locomotives, Advocating for the Right to Burn Coal By JEFFREY BALL : In 2002, when Rajendra Pachauri was elected head of the world’s top climate-science body, Al Gore and other environmentalists condemned him as a favorite of the fossil-fuel industry. Today, the 70-year-old chairman of the Intergovernmental

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$27.9 billion in “fast-start” funding has so far been pledged by industrialized countries to help developing countries mitigate and adapt to climate change, according to a new climate finance tracking tool released by the World Resources Institute (WRI). $27.9 billion in “fast-start” funding has so far been pledged by industrialized countries to help developing countries

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The fear that global temperature can change very quickly and cause dramatic climate changes that may have a disastrous impact on many countries and populations is great around the world. But what causes climate change and is it possible to predict future climate change? New research from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of

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The Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) this morning voiced hope that a newly-released review of Panel working methods would strengthen its efforts, as well as its public credibility, while he stressed that the overall conclusions of its assessments were not in doubt. “Science has confirmed that climate change is real,” Rajendra

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THE world’s leading climate change body has been accused of losing credibility after a damning report into its research practices. A high-level inquiry into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found there was “little evidence” for its claims about global warming. It also said the panel had emphasised the negative impacts of climate change and

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An international committee reviewing the “processes and procedures” of the UN’s climate science panel is set to report on Monday. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has faced mounting pressure over errors in its last major assessment of climate science in 2007. The review was overseen by the Inter-Academy Council, which brings together bodies

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