South Asia's deadly heatwave in March and April was made 30 times more likely because of climate change, scientists reported Monday .
The heatwave, which had delivered record temperatures in India in March, also badly damaged the country's winter wheat crop. Now, with the average temperature having warmed about 1.2 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial average, such heatwaves in South Asia are 30 times more likely to occur. And that frequency is expected to increase as global temperatures continue to rise.
To conduct their analysis, the scientists compared temperature data readings for the months of March and April dating back several decades with what conditions might have been without climate change, based on computer simulations.
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