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Climate change made a severe rise in heat in India and Pakistan 30 times more likely, says a study Extreme Event Attribution Saadia Azim Two people were killed on May 30 when dust storms and heavy rains lashed various areas of Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) bringing the capital city to a standstill for hours as the storm caused chaos, catching people off guard. While sitting in a cosy office space in faraway Kolkata, a few of us discussed the frequent rains, storms, and heat stress that leave people affected and even dead. A noted professor among us observed that if rare storms be...
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According to WHO, climate change will cause around 250 000 additional deaths per year from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, and heat stress between the years 2030 and 2050 Saadia Azim In April 2022, when the world was readjusting to pandemic after-effects, the World Health Organization (WHO) gave an SOS call. It wasn’t about any new variant of the pandemic virus but rather a call for speedy action to combat the climate crisis. WHO declared that the human-induced climate crisis is the “single biggest health threat facing humanity now,”, particularly with increased conflict and fragility. On its...
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“The ideological position of media, influences the intensity and content about climate action, in developed and developing countries alike.”, says the new IPCC report Saadia Azim The Working Group III (WG III) of the The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has in its new report identified the adverse impacts of misinformation on climate change for the first time. It points out that media professionals sometimes draw on the norm of representing both sides of a controversy, thus giving space to the disproportionate representation of skepticism of climate change. The situation arises...
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Forests are supposed to fight climate change, but in India’s case opposite could be true: forests could succumb to climate change if no urgent ameliorative measures are taken. Saadia Azim By 2050, nearly all of India’s forest cover will figure as climate change hotspots, which means they will be at greater risk of climate change than other regions. This would not only threaten the survival of forests but also affect the forest-dependent communities leading, in turn, to large-scale migration, public health concerns and climate refugees. India is one of the ten most forest-rich nations in the wo...
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And the Covid pandemic by cutting down spending on emissions may have further harmed the climate By Saadia Azim In February 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the second part of the Sixth Assessment Report (IPCC WGII AR6). The Working Group II report assesses the impacts of climate change on ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels. It highlights that global climate change will considerably impact human communities and increase the risks of vector-borne and water-borne diseases, under-nutrition, mental disorders, and allerg...
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