MoES Presents India's first ever climate change assessment report

The Ministry of Earth Sciences’ (MoES) has released the report titled ‘Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region’, which is the first ever climate change assessment report for different paarts of India.
The report is edited by scientists of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune.
The assessment report looks at regional climate change projections based on the IITM Earth System Model and Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment datasets.
Some of the key points highlighted in the report includes:
- India’s average temperature has risen by around 0.7°C during 1901–2018, this is purely due to the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG).
- The frequency of summer (April–June) heat waves over India will be 3 to 4 times higher (approximately 4.4°C) by the end of the 21st century as compared to the 1976–2005 baseline period.
- Precipitation over north India has decreased by 6% (1951-2015) due to the polluting aerosol “brown cloud”.