April Heat Wave in South Asia Made 30 Times More Likely by Climate Change

[onthedarkside]

 

Deadly heat and humidity across India, Bangladesh, Laos, and Thailand in late April was made significantly more likely by climate change, scientists say.

 

In parts of Bangladesh, temperatures soared to 105 degrees F (40.6 degrees C), while several Indian cities saw highs of 111 degrees F (44 degrees C). Laos and Thailand recorded temperatures up to 109 degrees F (42.9 degrees C) and 114 degrees F (45.4 degrees C), respectively, all-time highs for both countries.

 

The hot spell led to a spike in heat strokes across the region.

 

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https://e360.yale.edu/digest/april-2023-heat-wave-india-thailand-climate-change

 

[vandeventer]

Yes, it is getting hotter, we need more rain. Normally it would be flooding in some Area's where I live. Lets hope the rains come soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTMtdwqKo88

 

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5 hours ago, vandeventer said:

Yes, it is getting hotter, we need more rain. Normally it would be flooding in some Area's where I live. Lets hope the rains come soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTMtdwqKo88

 

If the likelihood of the current heat wave is most likely due to human caused climate change, it's because that's what climatologists have determined. Not because you or I have decided, based on our local or regional weather, that  this is the case.

[ukrules]

Nothing to do with El Nino then?

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40027509

[ozimoron]

10 minutes ago, ukrules said:

Nothing to do with El Nino then?

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40027509

No. El Nino events are nothing new. What we have here is progression.

Edited May 21, 2023 by ozimoron

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19 minutes ago, ukrules said:

Nothing to do with El Nino then?

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40027509

From the article you linked to:

"Thailand is susceptible to the effects of El Niño, which is forecast by the Department of Meteorology and weather experts to commence in June. The world, Thailand included, is expected to face an intense drought due to the occurrence of El Niño, leading to reduced rainfall during the rainy season, or possibly no rain at all."

[JackGats]

El Niño was first used by Peruvian fishermen to describe the oceanic condition 4 centuries ago. This hasn't prevented alarmists from turning it into a climate change thing.

[ozimoron]

12 minutes ago, JackGats said:

El Niño was first used by Peruvian fishermen to describe the oceanic condition 4 centuries ago. This hasn't prevented alarmists from turning it into a climate change thing.

They haven't. Climate change deniers are claiming that current conditions are entirely due to El Nino. The opposite to what you claim.

[rabas]

43 minutes ago, JackGats said:

El Niño was first used by Peruvian fishermen to describe the oceanic condition 4 centuries ago. This hasn't prevented alarmists from turning it into a climate change thing.

Faulty logic. Just because climate phenomena existed in the past doesn't mean they're not affected by climate change. 

 

The currently predicted strong El Nino almost certainly is. It follows a highly unusual 3 year, wrongly timed La Nina that drove California's recent drought. A new paper now shows the abnormal La Nina was triggered by massive particulate matter from abnormally severe Australian bushfires 2-3 years ago, almost certainty due to climate change. Here are refs, some with neat graphs and videos.

 

https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/australia-bushfires-may-have-caused-global-climate-phenomenon-la-nina-study/

Original paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg1213

 

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2023/05/20/graphics-el-nino-is-building-what-this-means-for-the-worlds-weather/70211954007/

[JackGats]

12 hours ago, rabas said:

Faulty logic. Just because climate phenomena existed in the past doesn't mean they're not affected by climate change. 

 

Of course. No one reckoned the climate boys would leave out such a popular item as El Niño.

 

Everything is down to climate change these days. Hurricanes, tornadoes, decline of fish catch, polar bears this and that, iceberg calvings, floods, jelly fish, ... 

 

 

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23 minutes ago, JackGats said:

Of course. No one reckoned the climate boys would leave out such a popular item as El Niño.

 

Everything is down to climate change these days. Hurricanes, tornadoes, decline of fish catch, polar bears this and that, iceberg calvings, floods, jelly fish, ... 

 

 

I guess your argument is just because the entire globe, both land and seas are getting warmer, that doesn't mean climate change is going to affect the entire globe.