South Asia’s intense heat wave a ‘sign of things to come’
The Independent says the devastating heat wave which has baked India and Pakistan in recent months was made more likely due to climate change, according to an international group of scientists. This, they say, is a glimpse of what the future holds for the region.
The World Weather Attribution group analyzed weather data from the region dating back 70 years and suggested in a study Monday that a heatwave like this — one that sets in early, lasts a long time and impacts a massive geographical area — is still a rare, a once-in-a-century-event. But the warming of the world by 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial levels because of human-caused climate change has made it 30 times more likely.
If warming increases to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), then heat waves like this could occur twice in a century or even once every five years, said Arpita Mondal, a climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, who was part of the study.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/india-ap-south-asia-pakistan-new-delhi-b2085561.html
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