India could face crippling heat waves

India has already seen its average annual surface air temperature rise by about 0.5 degrees Celsius during the past century. The warming had accelerated since 1971 and particularly so during the past decade, according to the country’s Second National Communication to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change made earlier this year.
...An analysis of the output from 18 different global climate models, published recently by scientists from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, and the IIT-Bombay, indicated that the country’s average annual surface air temperature could go up by between four degrees Celsius and seven degrees Celsius by the end of this century at the current rate of emissions.

Twitter / MichaelEMann [on himself as Galileo]

@jricole eppur si riscalda ("and yet it warms...") ;)

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