India and Bangladesh will have similar heatwaves every one to two years if the global average temperature rises to 2°C, World Weather Attribution study shows.
Intense heatwave conditions prevailed over Gangetic West Bengal for close to 10 days in April, seven days in Bihar and for over five days in Odisha with high humidity making the temperature rise far deadlier
Many parts of Bangladesh, India, Thailand and Laos experienced record high temperatures in April. Such events in India and Bangladesh, previously once-a-century, can now be expected around once in every five years because of human-caused climate change, says study
Human-caused climate change made April's record-breaking humid heatwave in India, Bangladesh, Laos, and Thailand at least 30 times more likely, a rapid attribution analysis by an international team of leading climate scientists as part of the .