[WSMDiscuss] Fwd: [TACC Lecture series] Chirag Dhara on India's first comprehensive climate change assessment report : 'Observed and Projected Changes in India’s Climate'

[Jai Sen]

Apologies for duplications !

Friday, July 3, 2020

Climate in movement…, Ideas in movement…, India in movement…, The world in movement…

[As I know many of us may agree, our concerns (and perhaps also actions) in relation to the crisis of climate change have got massively disrupted – and occluded - by the irruption of the corona virus crisis.  ‘Those’ other changes though are, as far as I know, continuing to relentlessly unfold and intertwine.  There is also the question of how the impacts of the crisis of climate change are going to in turn intertwine with the ongoing impacts of the corona virus crisis.  (Here, for those interested, is an article I posted a while ago, about an example of just this already having happened, this past month : Satya Sagar, June 2020 – ‘India’s Deadly Cytokine Storm <https://countercurrents.org/2020/05/indias-deadly-cytokine-storm/>’, on Countercurrents, at https://countercurrents.org/2020/05/indias-deadly-cytokine-storm/ <https://countercurrents.org/2020/05/indias-deadly-cytokine-storm/>.)

[Here, now, are the details of a webinar coming up this coming Monday, that I think many on this list might be interested in watching – about what’s happening (what the climate is behaving) in and around India - but where I’m sure that this will also hold great interest for many people elsewhere, all over the world :

Observed and Projected Changes in India’s Climate

A talk by Chirag Dhara in the ‘Teachers Against The Climate Crisis’ Talk Series, in and from India

Monday July 6, at 5:30 PM, Indian Standard Time (IST) (which is, for instance, 8 am EDT)

Chirag Dhara is a physicist and climate scientist at the Centre for Climate Change Research, in the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, India, and co-author of the recent report, Assessment of Climate Change Over the Indian Region (Springer, June 2020)

            Thanks, Chirag, and also Naga and everyone who is organising this !

            In solidarity,

            JS

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> Dear All, 
> Please circulate, and attend if you can! 
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> Vandana
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> P.S. Time is Indian Standard Time (IST) - Monday July 6, at 5:30 PM. 


Please circulate widely.

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TEACHERS AGAINST THE CLIMATE CRISIS
Welcomes you to the tenth talk in our series [and eighth online]

Observed and Projected Changes in India’s Climate
By Chirag Dhara
physicist and climate scientist, Centre for Climate Change Research, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, and co-author of the recent report, Assessment of Climate Change Over the Indian Region (Springer, June 2020).
 
Chirag Dhara has a PhD in theoretical physics from the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, Spain. He also has a second PhD in climate sciences from the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany. His larger concerns are climate change impacts, environmental protection, and climate justice.
 
6 July, Monday, 5.30 pm
 
This is the Zoom link to the talk:
https://zoom.us/j/99611464319 <https://zoom.us/j/99611464319>
It will become active a few minutes before 5.30 pm. All are welcome.

About the talk: India’s first comprehensive climate change assessment report, Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region, has just been released, two weeks ago. This landmark report is a regional analogue of the IPCC’s global-scale physical sciences reports. It covers all major aspects of changes in India’s climate, – including varied changes in temperature, precipitation, the extent of droughts, the rate of sea level rise, and the intensity of tropical cyclones – it explains why India’s climate has changed over the past seventy years, and what changes are projected to occur through the rest of this century. 

This talk will focus on some of the overarching findings of the report and discuss the context in which they must be understood. Several issues will be discussed, such as which climate change scenarios are considered more likely, how to interpret the numbers reported, the aggregate changes projected for monsoon rainfall and why, and the links between changes in different elements of the regional climate. Although not part of the report, some of the implications of these changes will also be presented.

About the group: Teachers Against Climate Crisis is a non-funded organization that seeks to promote understanding and engagement about different aspects of the climate crisis among students, teachers, and activists. To engage with our work, or get to know of future talks, email us at teachersagainstclimatecrisis at gmail.com <mailto:teachersagainstclimatecrisis at gmail.com>
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