New Environmental Issues

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Abstract: Greenhouse gases and its increase in the atmosphere with its consequent warming trend is well documented. Debate concerning global warming is not related to the initial warming, which is inevitable, but the later response in terms of added moisture, sequestration by oceans, response from changes in cloud cover - all unknown with an increasing order of uncertainty.

The author is Dy Director General of Meteorology, India Meteorological Department, New Delhi..