India has been very anomalous lately, and it is a warning sign to all of humanity

Source Author: Cow Playing the Piano

India has been very abnormal lately, and I always have a feeling that a new crisis is breaking out, which is a huge warning sign for all of humanity.

Because India is too hot right now, it's heating up the heat of the dead.

When China is still in the late spring, India has entered the summer early, and it is a summer that makes Indians difficult as soon as it appears.

A few data.

This past March was the hottest March ever recorded in India since 1901.

In the north-central region of India, the average temperature in April is the highest in 122 years.

Just last week, in at least 10 cities in India, the maximum temperature exceeded 45 degrees Celsius.

Cold will freeze people to death, and heat will also kill people.

According to Reuters, 25 people recently died of heat stroke in maharashtra, a state in western India alone, the highest death toll in the past five years. If magnified to the whole of India, the number of deaths would be very frightening.

Some parts of China have recently stopped reopening because of epidemic prevention; but in India, the epidemic has stopped being considered, and a large number of schools have closed because of the heat wave.

The temperature is too high, then the heat protection and cooling ah?

Indians tragically find that there is no money, much less electricity.

The heat wave crisis triggered the energy crisis.

70% of India's electricity comes from coal. But for many of India's thermal power plants, coal is now in desperate shortage, causing daily blackouts in many states.

According to India's Central Electricity Authority, at the end of April, 94 of India's 165 coal-fired power plants were severely undersupplied, while 8 were unable to operate. This means that India's coal stocks have fallen below 25% of normal levels.

Coal is in short supply, so what about imports?

Indians tragically discovered that coal was too expensive and could not be bought.

Because of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, global energy prices have soared, oil prices have risen, gas prices have risen, coal prices have also doubled, and the international price of thermal coal reached $400 in March, which is a price that India cannot afford.

Therefore, no matter how much the West persuades, India still desperately imports discounted Russian coal and oil, but the distant water still cannot quench the near thirst.

The heat wave crisis, the energy crisis, and the new economic crisis have been triggered.

In India's Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan, there may be a power outage for six or seven hours a day, and the power cut at the gate makes Indian enterprises lament, enterprises cannot produce, but wages have to be paid, what to do?

On Friday, India's Ministry of Railways cancelled more than 750 passenger trains to allow more freight trains to move coal from mines to power plants.

The crisis has also triggered other livelihood disasters, in addition to more and more people dying of heat stroke, some huge landfills, but also because of the heat of the fire; the temperature suddenly soared, Indians can not stand it, Indian crops can not stand it, many grass seedlings in the field withered.

India is the world's second-largest wheat producer, and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has led to an international food crisis that would be exacerbated if India failed harvests.

This is the current situation in India.

Alas, the world is hot and cold. In China, the epidemic is repeated; in India, the epidemic is no longer considered, but the heat wave has killed more people.

The same is happening in India. On April 29, temperatures reached 47 degrees Celsius in two cities in southeastern Pakistan, the highest temperature of the day in the Northern Hemisphere.

The highest temperature in the Northern Hemisphere is also the highest temperature in the world.

So much so that Pakistan's Minister of Climate Change, Sheri Lehman, was very emotional, saying that this was the first time in decades that Pakistan had experienced a "year without spring."

I'm not a meteorologist, but I think in the last two or three decades, each of us has seen too much anomalous weather.

The weather is getting hotter, not only in India, but also in Pakistan, but also in China. I remember when I was a child, the Jiangnan region was also dripping into ice in winter, the river ice was thick enough to walk, and there would be a long ice hanging under the eaves. (This sentence, do not accept the rebuttal, because I have personally experienced)

Europe and the United States are not much better.

Last June, the United States experienced the "hottest June" in a record 127 years, with 1238 places in the United States, and the daytime temperature set a new record; 1503 places, the night temperature set a new historical record.

In Canada, a province in British Columbia alone, at least 700 accidental deaths were reported in just one week. The heat sparked wildfires and the town of Leiden was burned to the ground.

The animals also fell into bad luck. At Kitsrano Beach near Vancouver, a lot of shellfish are "roasted" directly on the beach... Dense.

In Northern Europe, many countries do not cool down the air conditioning in the summer, heat waves hit, the ability to escape the heat, the inability to stay in the oven, every year there are many hot dead news.

According to the World Climate Attribution (WWA) study, scientists compared historical climate data with contemporary weather, with extreme weather measured in Canada and the United States last year occurring only once every millennium.

Once in a thousand years!

But our generation has caught up because of our planet, and greenhouse gas emissions are also greater than ever before. At current levels of carbon emissions, the planet will heat up another 2 degrees Celsius in a few decades, and such a heat wave may occur every 5 to 10 years.

Specifically in India, according to Frédéric Otto, a climatologist at Imperial College London, climate change is making hot temperatures hotter and more frequent, and heat waves are likely to hit India every four years instead of every five years in the past.

In other words, the heat waves in India will be more frequent and hotter.

This is not just a heat wave crisis, but also an energy crisis, a food crisis, an economic crisis, and even a political crisis, a social crisis, an existential crisis for mankind.

Of course, the crisis also affects us in China.

Have you noticed that in recent years, China has had a particularly strong rainfall, especially in the north, even more than in the south?

The bad news is that the torrential rains have caused flash floods, triggered urban waterlogging, and caused major losses of people and property; the good news is that the high slopes of the loess soil are also covered with green, and the Gobi near Dunhuang is said to have grown grass.

Please note that I do not deny the intention of the mainland's afforestation efforts, as the world's most cultivating people, our efforts are indeed earth-shattering, but we must not ignore the major changes brought about by climate change, changes that human beings cannot imagine.

It is a completely personal point of view, I don't know if it has something to do with geography, and the impact of climate change on the West on South Asia and island countries always feels greater than that of China.

But the recent heat wave in India is a wake-up call. Extreme weather is on the rise and is becoming a "new normal". What happens now in India, tomorrow it can happen in the United States, Europe, even China, and even Russia.

The Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the epidemic of the century have made mankind, who have experienced wave after wave of tossing and turning, face new crises, longer and more terrible crises.

Soaring energy prices, crop failures, and the risk of an economic crisis have made more countries afraid to give up coal. Coal emits more carbon dioxide, further exacerbating climate change.

We only have one Earth, and the Earth can't afford to toss more.

The recent extreme heat of the dead in India and Pakistan is a warning sign.

In many places on Earth, there is no spring anymore.

Column Editor-in-Chief: Zhang Wu Text Editor: Yang Rong Title Image Source: Xinhua News Agency Photo Editor: Yong Kai

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