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First Assessment of Climate Change over Indian Region
June 19 , 2020
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- 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.
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