Indian meteorological department "perfects" weather prediction

The IITM has also developed 'regional climate model', which is capable of predicting monsoons towards the end of the century, where monsoons are expected to intensify to five to ten per cent.

"We know temperature over Indian region has been increasing as shown in the figure over the last 100 years, but monsoon rainfall is not increasing. Total quantum of rainfall over last 100 years is quite steady. This was a bit of a puzzle for long time and over the last few years, we have done study that while the mean monsoon is not changing, but distribution of rainfall is changing," said Goswami.

UN climate talks edge "forward", splits remain | Markets | Reuters

BONN, Germany, April 8 (Reuters) - U.N. climate talks in Bonn on Wednesday were expected to back full negotiation on a climate pact text from June, amounting to disappointing progress, according to some delegates.

The March 29-April 8 talks were the latest in a series of U.N.-led meetings meant to forge a deal in Copenhagen in December to replace or extend the Kyoto Protocol, and June marks a legal deadline to start formal negotiation.

The highest hopes among developing countries were dashed that the Bonn meeting would set a range of emissions reduction targets for the group of industrialised nations as a whole.

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