00:00India continues to suffer a severe heat wave, with temperatures crossing 50 degrees Celsius
00:06in several areas week after week.
00:09Welcome to Deep Dive with Outlook, today we will be discussing climate change and heat
00:14wave in India.
00:15Delhi, Bihar, Rajasthan and Jharkhand have become heat traps due to their unbalanced
00:22growth, devouring water bodies and increasing greenhouse emissions.
00:26At least 77 people lost their lives because of the heat wave from May to 3rd June.
00:32Not just India, according to an analysis by World Weather Attribution, climate change
00:38made the likelihood of such a heat wave across South Asia 0.85 degrees Celsius hotter than
00:45it would otherwise be.
00:47Pregnant women, newborns, children, adolescents, older people, the poor and the marginalized
00:53communities are the ones who are most affected by wildfires, flooding and extreme heat.
01:00A report by Yale Program on Climate Change Communication shows that about one in three
01:06of the 2,178 respondents in South Asia said they have either already moved or considered
01:13moving because of weather-related disasters such as extreme heat, drought, sea-level rise
01:19and flooding.
01:20Rivers eroding banks in Bangladesh, flooding in Pakistan and India, melting glaciers in
01:26Nepal, rising seas in India and Bangladesh, periods of unusually dry months followed by
01:33heavier than normal rains on rice and tea estates in Sri Lanka, cyclones and inhospitable
01:39temperatures across all countries are contributing to climate-induced migration.
01:44In 2021, the National Family Health Survey data showed that over half of the women and
01:51children living in disaster-prone areas were at high risk.
01:55Studies have also shown that rising temperatures have also been linked to higher instances
02:00of stillbirth and premature births in India.
02:04Women are also found to be more susceptible to extreme temperatures, specifically heat,
02:09in comparison to men.
02:11Last year, the Bulletin set its metaphorical doomsday clock at 90 seconds to midnight.
02:18Every year, the Bulletin updates the time of its symbolic doomsday clock to illustrate
02:23global human-created threats that it considers existential, including nuclear war and bio-threats
02:29like COVID-19, artificial intelligence and the climate crisis.
02:34Striking midnight represents the end of the world, projecting that humanity's continued
02:40existence is at a grave risk.
02:43To battle the climate change, India and the United States are preparing to jointly launch
02:48NASA's Astro Synthetic Aperture Radar, announced the White House.
02:53Krishna S. Vatsa, a member of the National Disaster Management Authority, said that most
02:59Indian states are implementing heat action plans that include providing drinking water
03:04and better medical facilities, as well as rescheduling outdoor work and school vacations.
03:11While there is no clear mandate to implement long-term strategies, Delhi's long-term plan
03:17includes increasing heat insulation of buildings, developing shelters for urban poor and slum
03:23dwellers and investing in cooling water bodies.
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