India and Pakistan heatwave 30 times more likely because of climate change

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NEW DELHI - Heatwaves such as the brutally long and early one over parts of India and Pakistan this year, which largely persists and has so far claimed at least 90 lives and resulted in crippling powe

r shortages as well as reduced agricultural yields, are about 30 times more likely because of human-induced climate change.

Large parts of India and Pakistan have been experiencing an unusually early and long-running heatwave this year, which has been exacerbated by the lack of pre-monsoon rainfall. It began as early as March, which was the hottest ever since India began keeping temperature records in 1901, and intensified in April.

Temperatures have also soared to record-levels over Pakistan; on May 14, Jacobabad was one of the hottest cities on earth at 51 deg C. "It would also be between half a degree to one-and-a-half degrees warmer compared to what we have seen in this 2022 event," added Professor AchutaRao, who was involved in the study.

"The real result is probably somewhere between ours and the Met Office result, I would say, for how much climate change increased this event," Dr Friederike Otto, a senior lecturer in Climate Science at Imperial College London and WWA's co-leadreel under intense rainfall and crippling floodsVillagers wade through a flooded road after heavy rains in Hojai district of India's Assam state, on May 19, 2022.

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Was there in the 90s. Summer in the 50s. 😎

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