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Adaptation is crucial to tackling climate change, say experts
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| NYOOOZ , Tuesday, August 01, 2017 |
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| Experts from government, civil society and research organisations spoke about changing rainfall patterns, increase in mean temperature, ocean warming and the devastating impact of cyclones at a two-day workshop on climate change held in the city. The workshop was organised by the Centre for Media Studies, in collaboration with the German development agency GIZ and the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change. A. Ramachandran, visiting professor at the Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation Research (CCCAR), Anna University, said that Tamil Nadu was witnessing a general tendency of decline in annual rainfall, estimated at about 4%, even as the mean average temperature was rising. He warned that if this continued the State would be in the grip of a drinking water crisis soon as poor rainfall would lead to frequent droughts. Projections for sea-level rise show that the State’s 1076 km-long coastline could experience anything between 1-7 mm/yr-1 of sea-level rise by the end of the century.
“Even a half a millimetre sea-level rise could inundate over 60,000 acres of land near the coast,” claimed K. Palanivelu, Director of CCCAR. H. Malleshappa, Tamil Nadu’s Director for Environment, outlined the State’s climate action plans and emphasised the need for adaptation to tackle the current crisis.
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