More floods may hit India: Experts
Heat wave conditions and cloud bursts could hit any part of India in coming days
By : amit s. upadhye
Update: 2014-09-16 05:28 GMT
New Delhi: The extreme weather conditions that caused irreversible damage in Uttarakhand and Jammu-Kashmir are going to happen more in the near future, warned climate change experts while deliberating on the new trend in India which has seen more than seven natural disasters in just ten years since Mumbai was flooded in 2005.
Two weeks after flash floods in Jammu-Kashmir the situation is yet to return to normalcy and climate change experts have warned that flash floods, heat wave conditions and cloud bursts could hit any part of India in the coming days. Though these unprecedented floods may not be a direct consequence of climate change, global warming could increase the frequency of such events.
According to Rajendra K. Pachauri , Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, disasters in India are increasing. “It’s time we concentrate on bringing down green house gas emissions. There are reports of mass fish migration, we have found evidence that the productivity of wheat, rice and maze getting affected with rising temperature,” he warned.