May 2013 will be remembered as the month that concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere burst through the symbolic 400 parts per million (ppm) barrier.
June 2013 will be remembered as the month in which thousands of people died in the floods that ravaged the state of Uttarakhand.
Climate change and the tragedies of Uttarakhand may not seem directly related. But what the models of climate scientists tell us is that as greenhouse gases mount in the earth's atmosphere, the climate will become more variable - and more unpredictable. And that the countries that will suffer the most are tropical countries like India.
Today, the earth's atmospheric reservoir is fast filling with carbon dioxide. We do not know how much space is left but it is not much, certainly not enough to burn even a fraction of the fossil fuels we have left in the ground.
25/09/13 Robert Litterman & Varadarajan V Chari/Economic Times
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June 2013 will be remembered as the month in which thousands of people died in the floods that ravaged the state of Uttarakhand.
Climate change and the tragedies of Uttarakhand may not seem directly related. But what the models of climate scientists tell us is that as greenhouse gases mount in the earth's atmosphere, the climate will become more variable - and more unpredictable. And that the countries that will suffer the most are tropical countries like India.
Today, the earth's atmospheric reservoir is fast filling with carbon dioxide. We do not know how much space is left but it is not much, certainly not enough to burn even a fraction of the fossil fuels we have left in the ground.
25/09/13 Robert Litterman & Varadarajan V Chari/Economic Times
