The Times of India: The climate change is fast becoming a major global concern and urgent steps are needed to tackle it, says Prof Jagdish Shukla, president, Institute of Global Environment and Society, George Mason University, US."The global warming in mainly responsible for climate change and its repercussions are reflected in the form of extinction of nearly 20 per cent of world's flora and fauna in the past few years," he informed TOI on Monday. "But, more than the loss of biodiversity, climatic variations are directly affecting India, where more than two-third of the population depend on agriculture," added the senior climate expert, who arrived in the city to inaugurate the three-day International Congress on Recent Advances in Environmental Science and Technology, organised by Centre for Environmental Science and Technology, Banaras Hindu University.
The shrinking and melting of Himalayan glaciers has thrown a new challenge and urgent efforts are needed to stop these important sources of fresh water in most of the rivers in the country from drying up. As many as eight projects are in the pipeline under the climate change action plan and one of them is regarding Himalayan glaciers, informs the man, who is a senior member of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) formed by the Prime Minister.
Emphasising that more research was needed for accurate prediction of monsoon fluctuations to benefit farmers in the country, he also said "we are set to witness changing agricultural practices in the coming years, mainly because of climatic variations. We are already witnessing extended summer and shortened winter season and it is bound to influence the cropping pattern in the coming days." This will explain the drought-like condition in most parts of the country this year….
The south face of Kachenjunga from Nepal, shot by Carsten.nebel, Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License
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