CV RAMAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

A REPORT ON
THE RECENT CLIMATIC CHANGES IN
INDIA
UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF

MS. MONALISA CHATTERJEE

Asst. prof.
DEPT. OF ENGLISH

Submitted By:
MINAL
Branch - ETC 1 A
B.Tech 3rd Semester
Registration No.-1701227111
 DECLARATION

MINAL ,student of CVRCE, Bhubaneswar declares that

MINAL
Branch - ETC 1 A
B.Tech 3rd Semester
Registration No.-1701227111
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
With a deep sense of satisfaction and gratitude to
Technical Writing faculty along with the staff members
of C.V RAMAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
,BHUBANESWAR, I wish to place on records that the
report was imparted in a highly congenial atmosphere
and has been an immense value to me .
It is because of their ardent and consistent efforts that
I was able to imbibe so much .The project has helped
me to inculcate the right kind of skills, knowledge &
attitude to make a career as a successful engineer.
 Table of contents
 Letter of transmittal
 Abstract
 Introduction
 Methodology
 Findings
 Surface temperatures
 Water bodies
 Heat waves
 Shortage of water
 Sea level
 Natural environment
 Conclusion
 Recommendations
 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

November 10,2018

Monalisa Chatterjee

Department of Basic Science and Humanities.

C.V. Raman college of Engineering

Subject:- LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

Dear Ma’am

With due respect I the undersigned student of ETC 1A have reported on ‘The
recent climatic change in India’.

Though we are in learning curve, this report has enabled us to gain insight into
the core fact of the change in climatic condition in India. So it became an
extremely challenging and interesting experience.

Thank you for your supportive considerations for formulating ideas .Without
your inspiration this report would have been an incomplete one.

Lastly I would be thankful once again if you please give your judicious advice
on effort.

Yours Sincerely

MINAL
 ABSTRACT
India is a vast country with a billion-plus
population and it has a variety of climates and
topographical features. It depends on the
monsoons for meeting all its water needs, with
its major rivers either originating from the
Himalayas or fed by the monsoon rains. Indian
agriculture is critically linked to weather and
climate. India has faced severe droughts,
widespread floods and devastating tropical
cyclones. The threat of climate change induced
by global warming therefore looms large over
India in a real sense. Although this problem has
global dimensions, there are certain challenges
that are specific to India.

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 INTRODUCTION
As the name suggests, climate change is a change in
the climatic conditions on the Earth. Several factors
contribute towards this change since centuries.
However, the more recent ones that are mainly a result
of human activities are having a negative repercussion
on the atmosphere. The reason India is so vulnerable to
climate change is because it is a large country with
many living in poverty, inadequate infrastructure, and
lack of government planning to deal with complex
weather systems. India is subjected to irregular
monsoons, flooding, rising sea levels, and higher
temperatures. The monsoon season is vital to the Indian
economy because many Indians are agrarian. What
happens to India’s monsoons will drastically affect the
fate of the agricultural sector and the people dependant
on it. Climate change is going to continue to create
erratic extremes throughout the monsoon season.

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 METHODOLOGY
To determine the changes in the climate of India ,our team
has visited various places , done researches and surveys. We
also communicated with the local people in the areas those
who are living there since a long time. We have a record of
the details of changes in various areas of India.

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 FINDINGS
The maximum temperature of India has shown an inconsistent
pattern recording rise and decline during various years in the
time period between the years 2000 to 2015.

SURFACE TEMPERATURE:
An analysis of seasonal and annual surface air temperatures
for India, using data for 1881–2001 for 25 stations, shows
significant annual mean warming of 0.68°C per 100 years.
WATER BODIES:
Water supply is changing. Almost 67 percent of the glaciers
in the Himalayan mountain ranges, the source of major rivers
in India, have retreated in the past decade
HEAT WAVES:
Heat waves in Orissa, in the 1998-2000 period caused an
estimated 2,120 deaths, and heat waves in 2003 in Andhra
Pradesh caused more than 3,000 deaths.
SHORTAGE OF WATER:
Karnataka, violated agreements about sharing water from
the Cauvery River. Bangalore is facing acute water scarcity as
it attempts to meet the drinking water needs of 7 million
people in the cities.
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SEA LEVEL:
Observed trends in the mean sea level along the Indian coast
indicate a rising trend of about 1 cm per decade, which is
close to that recorded in other parts of the globe. Today,
coastal regions in India and Bangladesh are subjected to
stronger wind and flood damage than in the past because of
stronger storm surges associated with tropical storms.
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT:
Even with a conservative temperature increase of 1–2°C,
most ecosystems and landscapes will be impacted through
changes in species composition, productivity and
biodiversity. Impacts to nearly 200,000 forest villages—
naturally heavily dependent on forest resources—will be
innumerable.

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This graph shows the ranking of adaptive capacity in base
year of India as compared to other countries.

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 CONCLUSION
As India searches for additional sources of energy to
meet rising demand, climate change mitigation efforts
may constrain its use of indigenous and imported coal,
oil, and gas, while development of nuclear energy will be
slow at best and likely to encounter opposition. Other
non-emitting technologies will require technology
transfer and capacity-building.
There are impacts to high-input, high-output agriculture
as a result of various changes in the Indian climate.
Glacier melt may yield more runoff in the short term but
less in the medium and long terms. More severe storms
(especially cyclones) will cause more damage to
infrastructure and livelihoods.

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RECOMMENDATIONS
The climate is always changing and always has, but in this day
and age humans are the major influencers of this change. It is
a mess we got ourselves into and it is our collective duty now
to clean it up.
Countries like India do need their carbon space for
development and poverty alleviation. Even so, the Intended
Nationally Determined Contributions India has put forward
are without doubt aggressive given India’s per capita energy
consumption, which already is well below the global average.
India, by all means, is ready to play an important role in these
multilateral deliberations and future actions to save
humankind.

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