Mercury dips to 2.2 deg C at Phulbani; Orissa death toll 2 - Oneindia News

Bhubaneswar, Jan 12 (PTI) Freezing cold tightened its grip across Orissa with the mercury sliding to 2.2 degree Celsius at Phulbani even as one person succumbed in Balangir district today, taking the death toll due to cold in the state to two.

A beggar was found dead inside a sleeper coach of Surat-Puri Express train at Kantabanji railway station in Balangir district this morning and was believed to have died due to severe cold conditions, Superintendent of Police Ajaya Sadangi said.

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Daniel J. Weiss, who directs climate strategy for the Center for American Progress, told the Washington Post, said the figures should force the world to take action.

"Hopefully, this new data will finally convince congressional climate-science deniers that global warming is real and that action is urgent," he told the Washington Post. "To reject this latest evidence is like ignoring strange spots on a chest X-ray and continuing to smoke."