Press Trust of India: Acting on UN reports during the outgoing year on threats of impending climate change, the government set up a high-level panel to tackle the impact of global warming. The first report of the Nobel award winning Inter-Governmental Penal on Climate Change (IPCC) rang the alarm bells predicting that temperatures in the next century are expected to go up by 2.5 to 4.5 degrees Centigrade and that India, along with developing countries, will face a serious shortage of water and threat to …