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Monsoon rainfall this year was expected to be barely normal. Since the start of the monsoon season, rainfall, over the country as a whole, has been only seven per cent more than normal till now. And yet, the first two months of the monsoon season has already produced a number of extreme rainfall events, many of them leading to largescale devastation and destruction, as witnessed in Himachal Pradesh earlier this month, and in Gujarat last week.
Climate change is known to play a significant role in increasing the frequency and intensity of these extreme rainfall events. While the overall rainfall over India has not altered much over the years, the number of extremely wet days has increased. But all such events are not directly attributable to climate change. There are a lot of other factors, sometimes freak local weather patterns, also trigger these.
The abnormally high rainfall in northern India in the first two weeks of this month, and the more recent heavy downpour in Gujarat, have caught national attention and are being seen as further signs of climate change. To discuss these events, and the more wider impacts of climate change over India, The Indian Express will host Dr R Krishnan, Executive Director, Centre of Climate Change Research at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune, at an Explained session on Saturday, July 29.
Dr Krishnan is one of the leading climate change scientists in the country with several decades of research in this area. He is one of the lead authors of a 2020 report on climate change over Indian region, which is the most comprehensive assessment of the likely impacts over India. Dr Krishnan has also been an author of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report, and has published many research papers and other studies on climate change.
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