A monsoon warning
As I write this my city Delhi is drowning. It started raining early this morning and within a few hours the city has come to a standstill. The television is showing scenes of traffic snarled up for...
View ArticleHow to rewrite the Durban script
It’s that time of the year again. Climate change talks are heating up, with the next conference of parties scheduled in Durban in end-November. There is heat but no light. The negotiations are stuck...
View ArticleWeather dice is loaded
During my weekly conversation with my sister I told her about the unusual searing heat this June, the problems of power cuts and how we are coping in India. She, in turn, told me that in Washington DC,...
View ArticleHimalayan blunders
The floods in the Himalayas have been ferocious and deadly. Fears are that the final body count could run into several thousands. There is no clear estimate of the number of villages wiped out,...
View ArticleClimate science in real world
What we desperately shut our minds to is once again being pronounced ever more clearly: climate change is here; it is already bringing devastating extreme weather events; it will become worse in the...
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J&K floods a grim reminder of increasing climate change impact in India: CSE
Climate models predict that India will be hit more and more by extreme rainfall eventsRelated Articles: PresentationMumbai, Leh, Uttarakhand & now J&K: Is climate change causing these extreme...
View ArticleJ&K floods a grim reminder of increasing climate change impact in India: CSE
Climate models predict that India will be hit more and more by extreme rainfall eventsread more
View ArticlePromise me the monsoon
Why this weird weather? Why have western disturbances—the extra-tropical storms that originate in the Mediterranean and Atlantic seas—been lashing us again and again, with devastating impacts on...
View ArticleStop the killing fields
This is our season of despair. This year, it would seem, the gods have been most unkind to Indian farmers. Early in the year came the weird weather events, like hailstorms and freak and untimely rains...
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Lived Anomaly: How to Enable Farmers in India to Cope with Extreme Weather...
Related Articles: Press Release Agriculture sector in distress due to extreme weather events, farmers need better protection measures, say experts at CSE consultation Agenda National...
View ArticleInsure farmers to ensure future
Let’s leave for the moment the questions why these extreme weather events are happening in our world with greater frequency and intensity. Let’s discuss what we need to doread more
View Article2016: a year of growing dissent
This year, more than ever before, has been tumultuous, both in terms economic politics and nature’s artread more
View ArticleFuture is in our hands
We can make or break it, depending on whether we stand up and are counted or let markets drive democraciesread more
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