Global warming may hit corps
A researcher at the University of Liverpool, UK has stated that there would be a decrease in crop yield in India, as temperatures increase, due to global warming. Because of climate change, diseases like malaria were likely to persist in many states in India.
Dr.A. Martin Mortimer, member of the Integrative Biology Research Division said that there would be an increase of 20 percent in monsoon rainfall. He said that this raise in rainfall was projected for Punjab, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu.
Dr.Mortimer said that the latest high resolution climate change scenarios and projections for India showed that there would be increase in the annual mean surface temperature by 3 to 5 degree Celsius, by the end of this century.
He said that the extreme climate changes could also be expected to increase substantially, particulary over tha West coast and west central parts of India. He said that the climate change leading to warming and water stress could further exacerbate land degradation. India’s contribution to the cumulative global carbon dioxide emission from 1980 to 2003 was only 3.11 percent.
