While India may be aggressively chasing its climate change mitigation goals, effects of rising temperatures are beginning to tell on its cities, affecting nature, spreading diseases.
Vimal Mishra, meteorologist and assistant professor at IITGandhinagar, was part of a recent committee to investigate the floods at Dhanera in Gujarat. Heavy rains had lashed Gujarat and Rajasthan in July, and the normally quiet Rel river had overflown, causing havoc in the neighbouring areas.
As part of a team investigating the impact of this flooding, Mishra looked at the statistics of rainfalland river flows, and compared them with historical figures. In two days, the region had got twice the seasonal total of rainfall, the water level in the river had exceeded 50 times the high water mark. “I was shocked by the numbers,” says Mishra.
In his own research, Mishra along with his colleagues was investigating the correlation between extreme meteorological events and climate change. Four years ago, he found that the maximum rainfall was not showing an increase over the last century except in four of 57 towns and cities.
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