TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi: Dont let the cold winter this year blindside you to a contrary phenomenon that is creeping up upon us.Temperatures in India are set to get higher higher than what the country has recorded in the past 130 years.The monsoon too is going to change;it will rain as much,perhaps higher,but in short,intense bursts,heightening the risk of floods and crop failure. These are some of the grim findings of prominent meteorologists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology,a government-funded research centre at Pune.IITM scientists K Krishna Kumar,S K Patwardhan and B N Goswami,along with scientists from France,the US and Thailand have concluded that higher temperatures have a strong probability of coming true. Day temperatures will be higher and there will be less respite from the heat at night,says their research paper.The band of high-temperature days will get longer than now.In turn,these changes could result in higher heat-wave deaths,apart from impacting crops. The average annual temperatures across the country could rise by 2 degree Celsius by the middle of this century and by 3.5 degree Celsius by its end,the scientists said on the basis of several scientific and mathematical formulas that were used in tandem to predict the future.One such model suggested that temperatures could rise by as much as 6 degree Celsius by the end of the century. If green-house gas emissions are not reduced or controlled,the average daily maximum temperatures before the onset of monsoons would routinely stay above 45 degree Celsius.And rains across the country could increase by 8-10 % by the end of the century and come down with higher intensity,increasing the risk of floods and bad crops.
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New Delhi: Dont let the cold winter this year blindside you to a contrary phenomenon that is creeping up upon us.Temperatures in India are set to get higher higher than what the country has recorded in the past 130 years.The monsoon too is going to change;it will rain as much,perhaps higher,but in short,intense bursts,heightening the risk of floods and crop failure.
These are some of the grim findings of prominent meteorologists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology,a government-funded research centre at Pune.IITM scientists K Krishna Kumar,S K Patwardhan and B N Goswami,along with scientists from France,the US and Thailand have concluded that higher temperatures have a strong probability of coming true.
Day temperatures will be higher and there will be less respite from the heat at night,says their research paper.The band of high-temperature days will get longer than now.In turn,these changes could result in higher heat-wave deaths,apart from impacting crops.
The average annual temperatures across the country could rise by 2 degree Celsius by the middle of this century and by 3.5 degree Celsius by its end,the scientists said on the basis of several scientific and mathematical formulas that were used in tandem to predict the future.One such model suggested that temperatures could rise by as much as 6 degree Celsius by the end of the century.
If green-house gas emissions are not reduced or controlled,the average daily maximum temperatures before the onset of monsoons would routinely stay above 45 degree Celsius.And rains across the country could increase by 8-10 % by the end of the century and come down with higher intensity,increasing the risk of floods and bad crops.
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