Global Warming Making India Vulnerable to Extreme Weather Events
- Country needs to plan mitigation measures, top official says
- India could continue to witness wide variations in rainfall
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India is likely to witness more extreme weather events, including intense heat waves, heavy flooding and severe drought that pose challenges to food and energy security for the second-most populous nation.
“The extremes are increasing — hot is becoming hotter and cold is becoming colder,” said M. Ravichandran, the top bureaucrat at the country’s earth sciences ministry. This trend is only going to intensify every year, driven by a warming planet, he said in an interview on the sidelines of a G20 working group meeting on climate and environment in Bengaluru.