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Politics of Climate change

In this section, we will deal with political position of various nations as well as issues that have arisen due to the threat of climate change.

The concept of global warming

Industrial Revolution started in mid 18th century in Europe. For close to 100 years human civilisation used coal to power its ships, trains, power plants to produce electricity, stoves at home to cook food and to keep themselves warm from biting cold during winters.

Lost in statistics

Scientists all over the world are busy trying to work out a benchmark for the amount of CO2e (Carbon-dioxide or equivalent green house gases) presence so that atmosphere's mean temperature doesn't rise beyond 2 degree centigrade as compared to Pre-Industrial Revolution.

Understanding the global efforts

Ever since 1970s weather trends and scientific data were suggesting that the world climate was slowly but surely undergoing a change.

Earth and its climate

In class five in my primary school the geography textbook said sun is a big ball of fire. The fire comes to earth in the form of light and heat. This warmth of the sun is trapped by the invisible mass of gases around the earth we call atmosphere.

Our rights to greens

Fewer people in urban India can hang around in greens anymore. We live in concrete shells, with car parks where shrubs once flourished, reports Bharati Chaturvedi.

In arid fields, bumper crop

As monsoons get more erratic and rainfall dips in northwestern Orissa, a group of farmers is collecting rainwater to rejuvenate their fields, reports Priya Ranjan Sahu.

Rio to Copenhagen

Its been 19 years since all the countries in the world came together to take affirmative action to save the world from the ill effects of climate change caused due to relentless pollution. A look at two decades long journey to save the earth.
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