First Assessment of Climate Change over Indian Region
June 19 , 2020 1730 days 1140 0
The Ministry of Earth Science released its report.
It is India’s first-ever national forecast on the impact of global warming on the subcontinent in the coming century.
It will be part of the next report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), expected to be ready in 2022.
These projections are based on a climate forecasting model developed at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune.
It indicates a rise in worldwide average surface air temperatures by 5°C by the end of the century if human activities keep emitting GHGs at the current rate.
The average surface temperature of India could increase up to 4.4 degree Celsius by the end of 2100 as compared to the temperature between 1976 and 2005.
The average temperature of the country increased by 0.7 degree Celsius as compared to the period between 1900 and 2018.