India, Dec. 2 -- Greenhouse gas emissions could raise global temperatures much more than previously forecast leading to drought and flooding as weather patterns shift and polar ice melts
For the first time, in an unequivocal verdict, scientists have held human activities responsible for most of the warming of the Earth's atmosphere over the last 50 years. Latest assessment of scientific studies of climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts that such actions will continue to change the composition of atmosphere throughout the 21st century.
The IPCC report was written by 123 experts from a number of countries and released in Shanghai, China, at a United Nations conference held from January 17 to 20, 2001...