ECONOMIST  |  Asia

Climate change is making the monsoon more dangerous

Commuters navigate through through a traffic jam due to water-logging after heavy monsoon rain in New Delhi, India

2024-07-18  750  晦涩

People in parts of India and South Asia can probably expect more days like this. Since the middle of the 20th century the number of “extreme rain days” (defined as more than 150mm of precipitation in 24 hours) in India has gone up. Global warming appears to be making the monsoon more variable. And as temperatures rise further, the monsoon’s extremes could become more damaging.

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