Urgent action on climate change needed: Pachauri

Times of India , Friday, September 11, 2009
Correspondent : PTI
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Noted environmentalist and Nobel prize winner R K Pachauri called for an urgent international action to tackle global climatic changes.

"There can be no longer any debate on the need to act because it has been established that climate change is an unequivocal reality beyond scientific doubt," Pachauri said, delivering the keynote address at School of Bhagavad Gita 'Salagram' Ashram here.

Increase in temperature, rise in sea water level, changes in monsoon rainfall pattern are some of the adverse impacts already experienced due to climate change, he pointed out.

Changes were also taking place in precipitation patterns with a trend towards higher precipitation levels in the world's upper latitudes and lower precipitation in some sub-tropical and tropical regions and in the Mediterranean sea, he said.

Pachauri, Chairman of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, warned that one could expect more heat waves, floods and droughts. There would be change in the pattern of rainfall, he said, adding that the Artic region has been warming at twice the rate of the rest of the globe.

"Unless we limit the emission of greenhouse gases that restricts the future temperature increase, 20 to 30% of living species will be under threat," he said.

 
SOURCE : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/environment/developmental-issues/Urgent-action-on-climate-change-needed-Pachauri/articleshow/4994466.cms
 


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