So you were afraid of Global Warming

Last October, Mumbai University’s Centre for Extra Mural Studies organised a day-long ‘International Conference on Climate Change: Shifting Science and Changing Policy’. As against the popular belief that global warming is a settled subject, they approached it critically. One of the speakers was RH Kripalani, a former head of climate research at the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) Climate Centre in Busan, South Korea. Kripalani’s presentation was short. He had been studying the monsoon for over four decades and talked about whether global warming would have any impact on rains in India. It had been the subject of a paper of his, according to which monsoon rainfall will actually increase in India if man continues to pump carbon dioxide into the air.

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