India Climate Change Concerns Due To Floods

But further north, in Vermont, flooding has caused President Biden declare a state of emergency. In southern Europe, yet another heat wave is building. In Italy, temperatures have risen above 40 degrees Celsius and could go higher still in Greece and Spain. In India, one of the most climate vulnerable regions, deaths are reported to have spiked as a result of sustained high temperatures.

Friday July 14 2023

The beginning of July was the hottest week on record on this planet. Around the world, a series of extreme weather events have intensified concerns about runaway climate change, and nowhere illustrates that better than North America.Texas has suffered a record number of 100 degree days.

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In China, Beijing has issued its highest level heat alert for northern parts of the country. In all, it amounts to a worrying pattern of extreme weather caused in part by climate change.Vermont two months of rain have dumped on the state in just a matter of days.

Is everywhere down Main Street. There’s extensive flooding right here. As you can see, the road has completely crumbled. This is a car dealership behind me and take a look where you can see the concrete.

Himachal Pradesh

it’s just holding on to that Jeep from falling into the river below. Scenes like this are playing out statewide. It happened so fast and there have been so many comparisons between this storm and Hurricane Irene in 2011, which completely devastated Vermont. and so many residents have told us this was far worse. I’m in Solon district of the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, which is the worst affected state in the region because of heavy rains.

Since the last weekend, authorities say that in Himachal Pradesh, 31 people were killed. Till Tuesday, nearly 1300 roads were closed due to landslides and flash floods and 40 major bridges damaged. In the last three days, a lot of tourists flocked to this state but for many their holiday has turned into a nightmare. Many people have been stranded because of landslides and flash floods. Officials claim that as many as 2000 tourists stranded in Kulu district owing to incessant rain.

Doctor Frederica

Have been safely evacuated. Several parts of the state and also that of the neighboring states of Punjab and Haryana continue to be flooded. Since Tuesday, weather has been lastly clear in most parts bringing relief to the residents. The authorities has stepped up relief measures in the region. That’s just a glimpse of what is happening. Let’s go live to Doctor Frederica, also who Senior Lecturer in Climate Science at Imperial University and author of Angry Weather, Heat Waves, Flood Storms.

What the weather is not changing faster than expected.Emissions. We are continuing to burn fossil fuels, and emissions are continuing to rise. And as long as we are burning fossil fuels, we will see more and more of these extreme events. That’s not unexpected. It’s exactly as expected.

We’re seeing floods but we are principally concerned and talking about heat. How hot is it likely to get and are we likely to see these records keep tumbling?

Yes. So this year we have on top of the increase in global temperatures because of the burning of fossil fuels, we have some natural phenomena that also lead to high temperatures. So the most famous of them is, is El Nino, which leads to higher ocean temperatures. We have seen that particular also around the UK, but that means that.

We have climate change plus naturally conducive weather to heat waves, so this year we will see more heat records being broken then if there was no El Nino event. But as long as we are burning fossil fuels. We will see heat records being broken again and again and again.

And it’s not just about trying to slow climate change. I mean that’s pretty obvious and we know about the very well publicized route maps to to actually doing that. But I suppose it’s also now having to address the the here and now for governments to to come up with plans to protect their own publics. We know the Greece having to formulate emergency plans that is going to have to change how we’re dealing with this now.

Both has to change. A lot of the plans to to to reduce emissions are actually also measures that will help us to adapt to extreme heat. So we need to insulate homes to lower emissions. But of course, that also helps people not to die in a heat wave if your homes are better insulated.

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asphalt will be cities with lower emissions overall, but also cities that can deal with heat better because they don’t won’t get as hot, but also of course that can withstand flooding much better if the ground is able to to.

A twin final question then, Geographically, Is there any part of the world that’s not seeing exactly the impacts you’re talking about? And in terms of climate change that we have at the moment, the El Nino effect, as you were talking about kicking in and making everything worse, will there be periods where when that is not happening, it’s not going to be as extreme as this?

Flooding India

A twin final question then, Geographically, Is there any part of the world that’s not seeing exactly the impacts you’re talking about? And in terms of climate change that we have at the moment, the El Nino effect, as you were talking about kicking in and making everything worse, will there be periods where when that is not happening, it’s not going to be as extreme as this?

It will not always be as extremist this.But it will never be as it used to be 10 years ago. It will as and as long as we keep burning fossil fuels it will just get worse. There is no place that safe. But of course the mean, really mean impact of climate change is that those that have least.

So the poor, poor people in every country in the world, the most vulnerable living and poor housing are the ones who pay often with their lives for the profits of for social companies.

Doctor Otto, we have to leave it there, but thanks so much for being here on the program. Thanks for your time.

Doctor, we have to leave it there, but thanks so much for being here on the program. Thanks for your time.Doctor Otto, we have to leave it there, but thanks so much for being here on the program. Thanks for your time.