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Summer heat hits Asia early, killing dozens as one expert calls it the "most extreme event" in climate history
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The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday issued a “red alert” warning for the eastern and southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Odisha, where temperatures have been soaring since mid-April.
“We saw heat waves even last year and it wasn’t blamed on El Niño,” Prof. Krishna AchutaRao, a scientist at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi’s Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, told CBS News.
AchutaRao, along with other scientists working with the World Weather Attribution organization, have compiled and analyzed data on last year’s heat waves in the region and the dozens of natural disasters that came with them in Laos and Thailand.
The heat is likely to continue inflicting widespread crop damage, further impacting the lives of farmers who’ve already faced increasing challenges in recent years — to the extent that hundreds of thousands staged massive protests in India to demand government help.
Many national governments restrict outdoor activity in a bid to prevent deaths during extreme heat events, which has an outsized impact on manual laborers in the construction sector — a huge part of Asia’s fast-developing economies.
Until that happens, experts fear the death toll will keep rising, and millions of people will face a dire decision with every new heat wave: Work in dangerous conditions, or go to bed hungry.
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