Thiruvananthapuram, September 10: Noted environmentalist and Nobel prize winner R K Pachauri today called for an urgent international action to tackle global climatic changes.
“There can be no longer any debate on the need to act because it has been established that climate change is an unequivocal reality beyond scientific doubt,” Pachauri said, delivering the keynote address at School of Bhagavad Gita ‘Salagram’ Ashram here.
Increase in temperature, rise in sea water level, changes in monsoon rainfall pattern are some of the adverse impacts already exerpienced due to climate change, he pointed out.
Changes were also taking place in precipitation patterns with a trend towards higher percipitation levels in the world’s upper latitudes and lower percepitation in some sub-tropical and tropical regions and in the Mediterranean sea, he said.
Pachauri, Chairman of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, warned that one could expect more heat waves, floods and droughts.
–PTI