Climate change may hot wheat in North India – 10 February 2012, The Times of India

February 13, 2012 by Climate portal editor Leave a Comment

Warning that an average rise of 1.5-2.5 degrees celsius in temperature would bring 20-30% of living species in the world on the brink of extinction, director-general of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Dr R K Pachauri on Thursday said it would also impact the cultivation of wheat crop in north India.

Climate Change may hit wheat in North India

Between contemplation and climate

Whether or not the USA, Europe, the Western world, the industrialised Eastern world (China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan), adhere to or not their paltry promises about being more responsible concerning the factors that lead to climate change, is of very little concern to us. We have never set any store by international agreements on climate […]

The ‘Hindu’, ignorant about weather and climate, but runs down IMD

We find objectionable the report by ‘The Hindu’ daily newspaper accusing the India Meteorological Department of scientific shortcoming (‘IMD gets its August forecast wrong’, 1 September 2016). The report claims that the IMD in June 2016 had forecast that rains for August would be more than usual but that the recorded rain was less than […]

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