Duration of Indian Hot Season Nearly Doubles as Crushing Drought and Heat Expand Across the Subconti

[ScienceRocks]

Duration of Indian Hot Season Nearly Doubles as Crushing Drought and Heat Expand Across the Subcontinent

“It is a drought we have not seen in 110 years. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and it is due to global climate change.” — S. Thirunavukkarasu, a retired Tamil Nadu Public Works official.

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For India, the hot-season-like temperatures began in late February — two months earlier than usual. After a brief respite, they fired again in March, bringing April-like temperatures a month too soon. The hot season for this region typically begins in mid-April and extends through mid-June. In 2017, hot-season conditions sparked in late February. Today, life-threatening temperatures of between 100 and 115 F blanket much of this vast, densely populated land.

The early onset of heat comes after years of expanding drought, warming temperatures, melting glaciers and drying rivers, bringing with it a deepening hardship. Farmers across the country report a sense of deepening desperation as cries for help in the form of nationwide protests break out. Meanwhile, those working outdoors increasingly suffer from heat- and dehydration-related kidney failure. This year, conditions that threaten heat injury and loss of life have spurred schools across the country to close early.

Duration of Indian Hot Season Nearly Doubles as Crushing Drought and Heat Expand Across the Subcontinent

More chum for the conservatives. hahaha

 

[fncceo]

Duration of Indian Hot Season Nearly Doubles as Crushing Drought and Heat Expand Across the Subcontinent

“It is a drought we have not seen in 110 years. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and it is due to global climate change.” — S. Thirunavukkarasu, a retired Tamil Nadu Public Works official.

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For India, the hot-season-like temperatures began in late February — two months earlier than usual. After a brief respite, they fired again in March, bringing April-like temperatures a month too soon. The hot season for this region typically begins in mid-April and extends through mid-June. In 2017, hot-season conditions sparked in late February. Today, life-threatening temperatures of between 100 and 115 F blanket much of this vast, densely populated land.

The early onset of heat comes after years of expanding drought, warming temperatures, melting glaciers and drying rivers, bringing with it a deepening hardship. Farmers across the country report a sense of deepening desperation as cries for help in the form of nationwide protests break out. Meanwhile, those working outdoors increasingly suffer from heat- and dehydration-related kidney failure. This year, conditions that threaten heat injury and loss of life have spurred schools across the country to close early.

Duration of Indian Hot Season Nearly Doubles as Crushing Drought and Heat Expand Across the Subcontinent

More chum for the conservatives. hahaha

So... vote for Hillary?

Will she airdrop air conditioners on India?

 

[mamooth]

So... vote for Hillary?

Will she airdrop air conditioners on India?

The conservatives here always try to deflect threads like this with trolling. I can't remember the last time one of them added a useful comment to any environmental discussion. Most of them aren't capable of adult conversation. Here, they're all chuckling about how funny it is that heat is killing people.

When wet bulb temperatures go past 95F, every large animal and human that can't get into air conditioning eventually dies from heatstroke, even if they're resting in the shade, soaking wet and next to a fan. Portions of India and Pakistan are now seeing temperatures close to that. Given the rate of warming, it won't be too long before they reach the lethal-for-everything temperatures. In another century, if global warming isn't controlled, even the midwestern USA could see temperatures like that. Not every day, but it only takes one such day to kill everything.

Me, I'd say that large heavily-populated portions of the earth's surface being rendered uninhabitable is a big deal, and that we should work to stop that from happening. But then, I'm not a genocidal sociopath.

 

[Old Rocks]

Fncceo has yet to add anything at all that resembles an intelligent post or comment to the conversation. Another intellectually crippled 'Conservative'.

Extreme heat affects not only animals, but negatively affects crops. Add drought to that, and you have a problem in a world of 7+ billion people.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Duration of Indian Hot Season Nearly Doubles as Crushing Drought and Heat Expand Across the Subcontinent

“It is a drought we have not seen in 110 years. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and it is due to global climate change.” — S. Thirunavukkarasu, a retired Tamil Nadu Public Works official.

****
For India, the hot-season-like temperatures began in late February — two months earlier than usual. After a brief respite, they fired again in March, bringing April-like temperatures a month too soon. The hot season for this region typically begins in mid-April and extends through mid-June. In 2017, hot-season conditions sparked in late February. Today, life-threatening temperatures of between 100 and 115 F blanket much of this vast, densely populated land.

The early onset of heat comes after years of expanding drought, warming temperatures, melting glaciers and drying rivers, bringing with it a deepening hardship. Farmers across the country report a sense of deepening desperation as cries for help in the form of nationwide protests break out. Meanwhile, those working outdoors increasingly suffer from heat- and dehydration-related kidney failure. This year, conditions that threaten heat injury and loss of life have spurred schools across the country to close early.

Duration of Indian Hot Season Nearly Doubles as Crushing Drought and Heat Expand Across the Subcontinent

More chum for the conservatives. hahaha

India has never had droughts or heat before fossil fuels.

 

[Manonthestreet]

they should immediately decarbonise before they are all dead

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

they should immediately decarbonise before they are all dead

Maybe they can power their air conditioners with burning dung?

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

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