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developed countries. In many cities in India the mean ambient level of total suspended particulate is about five times more than in the United States. Air pollutants , particularly suspended particulate matters significantly raise the risk of developing respiratory and cardiovascular infections, and cancer. The air pollution also undermines agriculture and accelerates deforestation. Courtesy: The Economic Times, March 26, 2011. Climate Change & Global Warming CLIMATE CHANGE RECONSIDERED: The Report Nongovernmental tiona/ Panel on Change of the lnterna– Ciimate [LIBERTY INSTITUTE, based in New Delhi, is an independent think tank dedicated to empowering the people by harnessing the power of the market. Liberty, in partnership with The Heartland Institute, USA has reprinted the 2009 NIPCC (Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change) report, for wider dissemination in India. The report is titled 'Climate Change Reconsidered'. Produced by 37 scientists from 14 countries, the report contains more than 4000 references to peer reviewed science, and is a comprehensive and authoritative response to the alarmist reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The NIPCC report highlights the weaknesses of the computer models for climate change used by the IPCC. It explains how the models suffer numerous deficiencies and shortcomings that could alter even the very sign(plus or minus), warming or cooling of earth's projected temperature response to rising atmospheric C02 concentrations. The consensus of the scientific papers in this report show there is no relation between global warming and damage to biodiversity, human health or occurrences of natural disasters. Further, this report finds that anthropogenic carbon emission probably has only a miniscule influence on global warming– thus the industries of developing nations like India should not be disproportionately burdened to cut carbon emissions. The scientists who wrote this study are working on a second edition, to be published in 2013. You can track their progress by visiting their web site at www.nipccreport.org. Additional information about global warming can also be found on two web sites maintained by the report's publisher, The Heartland Institute, at www.Environmental Climate-News.org and www.GlobaiWarmingHeartland.org . According to the report, Global warming is not a Crisis. About the Coauthors of the report: Dr S Fred Singer is one of the most distinguished atmospheric physicists in the U.S., since retiring from the University of Virginia and from his last federal position as Chief Scientist of the Department of Transportation, Singer founded and directs the non-profit Science and Environmental Policy Project. Dr Craig D /dso is the founder and current Chairman of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, was a faculty researcher in the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University and has lectured in meteorology at this University. The book runs into more than 7 44 pages with 9 Chapters in it. A copy of the book is available in CMA-Noida Library for reference. However, we reproduce below the Executive Summary from the report for your kind information and for facilitating a discussion on the subject. --EDITOR] Executive Summary The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Working Group-1 (Science) (IPCC-AR4 2007), released in 2007, is a major research effort by a group of dedicated specialists in many topics related to climate change. It forms a valuable compendium of the current state of the science, enhanced by having an index which had been lacking in previous IPCC reports. AR4 also permits access to the numerous critical comments submitted by expert reviewers, another first for the IPCC. While AR4 is an impressive document, it is far from being a reliable reference work on some of the most important aspects of climate change science and policy. It is marred by errors and misstatements, ignores scientific data that were available but were inconsistent with the authors' pre-conceived conclusions, and has already been contradicted in important parts by research published since may 2006, the IPCC's cut– off date. 25