Jakarta –
A heat wave is burning parts of South Asia this April 2023. Scientists say this is at least 30 times more likely to be caused by climate change.
These findings were revealed by a rapid study of international scientists who are members of the World Weather Attribution. At monitoring stations in parts of India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Laos last month, the temperature reached 45 degrees Celsius.
This scorching heat caused death, widespread hospitalization, damaged roads, started fires, and closed schools in the area. In Thailand, high temperatures mixed with humidity make parts of Thailand feel above 50 degrees Celsius.
In some parts of India, as many as 13 people died from the heat while attending a public event outside India’s business capital, Mumbai. Elsewhere, all schools and colleges were also closed for a week due to the hot temperatures.
The culprit of the temperature that feels boiling
To find out the causes of extreme weather, World Weather Attribution uses models to be able to determine it quickly. As a result, it was found that temperatures were at least two degrees Celsius warmer in the region due to climate change.
If global average temperatures are two degrees Celsius warmer than they were in the late 1800s, April’s heatwave could occur every year or two in India and Bangladesh. Currently, the world’s temperature is about 1.1 to 1.2 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times.
“We see again and again that climate change is dramatically increasing the frequency and intensity of heatwaves, one of the deadliest weather events ever,” said Friedrike Otto, senior climate scientist at Imperial College London and one of the study’s authors. , Thursday (18/5/2023).
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