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What Is Happening In Texas? Will India Face Such Drastic Changes In Climatic Conditions?
While conditions overwhelmed Texas, the US National Weather Service explained that the boiling state is suddenly freezing over because of an “Arctic outbreak .
Texas is known for its sprawling deserts and excruciating heatwaves, however, right now, the US state is blanketed in a thick layer of ice. Power outages, caused by a combination of high demand, power plants crippled by the weather, and a grid that is cut off from the rest of the country, have left millions of people shivering in the dark. The state is seeing some of its coldest temperatures in more than 30 years, with some areas even breaking records that are more than a century old. The US President Joe Biden has already declared a state of emergency as for the first time, winter-storm warnings are in place in all 254 counties.
India has the highest number of premature deaths in the world due to emissions from burning fossil fuels, according to a new study published in the Environmental Research journal, conducted by researchers at Harvard University, University of Birmingham and the University of Leicester and University College London.
Owing to the environment-friendly policies of the incumbent federal government, Pakistan has dropped to 8th place from 5th on the Long-Term Global Climate
Forbes
GLOBAL Climate Risk Index 2021 released on January 25 shows signs of escalating climate change across all continents and regions. This is the 16th edition of the annual report by Bonn-based environmental think tank Germanwatch that analyses the extent to which countries and regions have been affected by climate-related extreme weather events such floods, storms, heatwaves etc. and ranks them.
In 2019, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and the Bahamas were the hardest hit by extreme weather events, the report said. Japan, Malawi, Afghanistan, India, South Sudan, Niger and Bolivia were among the other affected countries in the top-10.
Between the period 2000 – 2019, Puerto Rico, Myanmar and Haiti reported the highest weather-related losses.