The India Meteorological Department (IMD) clarified that the maximum temperature of over 52 degrees Celsius recorded in Delhi's Mungeshpur on Wednesday was an "error in sensor or local factor."
It isn’t surprising. Global temperature rises won’t be uniform across the world and India unfortunately sits around the latitude that is highly prone to desertification. And while proper city planning would’ve helped mitigate the issues, in major cities, we only see green spaces disappear in favor of concrete, glass and roads, all compounding the heating effect. If nothing changes in the next couple of decades, we’ll see mass deaths, billions in lost economic losses and ecological problems not seen before.
Is it correct to say that out of tens of thousands of places, distributed on the whole surface of Earth, it is highly probable that some will experience a one-in-a-hundred-years record in the next few weeks? Be it heat, cold, rain, drought or earthquakes?
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