India is currently facing a severe heatwave, with temperatures exceeding 50 degrees Celsius in several regions, including Delhi, Bihar, Rajasthan, and Jharkhand, persisting over successive weeks. These areas have become heat traps due to imbalanced growth and escalating greenhouse emissions. Analysis from World Weather Attribution indicates that climate change has heightened the likelihood of such a heatwave by 0.8 degrees Celsius.
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00:00India continues to suffer a severe heat wave, with temperatures crossing 50 degrees Celsius
00:06in several areas week after week.
00:09Welcome to Deep Dive with Outlook, today we will be discussing climate change and heat
00:14wave in India.
00:15Delhi, Bihar, Rajasthan and Jharkhand have become heat traps due to their unbalanced
00:22growth, devouring water bodies and increasing greenhouse emissions.
00:26At least 77 people lost their lives because of the heat wave from May to 3rd June.
00:32Not just India, according to an analysis by World Weather Attribution, climate change
00:38made the likelihood of such a heat wave across South Asia 0.85 degrees Celsius hotter than
00:45it would otherwise be.
00:47Pregnant women, newborns, children, adolescents, older people, the poor and the marginalized
00:53communities are the ones who are most affected by wildfires, flooding and extreme heat.
01:00A report by Yale Program on Climate Change Communication shows that about one in three
01:06of the 2,178 respondents in South Asia said they have either already moved or considered
01:13moving because of weather-related disasters such as extreme heat, drought, sea-level rise
01:19and flooding.
01:20Rivers eroding banks in Bangladesh, flooding in Pakistan and India, melting glaciers in
01:26Nepal, rising seas in India and Bangladesh, periods of unusually dry months followed by
01:33heavier than normal rains on rice and tea estates in Sri Lanka, cyclones and inhospitable
01:39temperatures across all countries are contributing to climate-induced migration.
01:44In 2021, the National Family Health Survey data showed that over half of the women and
01:51children living in disaster-prone areas were at high risk.
01:55Studies have also shown that rising temperatures have also been linked to higher instances
02:00of stillbirth and premature births in India.
02:04Women are also found to be more susceptible to extreme temperatures, specifically heat,
02:09in comparison to men.
02:11Last year, the Bulletin set its metaphorical doomsday clock at 90 seconds to midnight.
02:18Every year, the Bulletin updates the time of its symbolic doomsday clock to illustrate
02:23global human-created threats that it considers existential, including nuclear war and bio-threats
02:29like COVID-19, artificial intelligence and the climate crisis.
02:34Striking midnight represents the end of the world, projecting that humanity's continued
02:40existence is at a grave risk.
02:43To battle the climate change, India and the United States are preparing to jointly launch
02:48NASA's Astro Synthetic Aperture Radar, announced the White House.
02:53Krishna S. Vatsa, a member of the National Disaster Management Authority, said that most
02:59Indian states are implementing heat action plans that include providing drinking water
03:04and better medical facilities, as well as rescheduling outdoor work and school vacations.
03:11While there is no clear mandate to implement long-term strategies, Delhi's long-term plan
03:17includes increasing heat insulation of buildings, developing shelters for urban poor and slum
03:23dwellers and investing in cooling water bodies.