DEVASTATING RAMIFICATIONS OF HEATWAVE ACROSS THE DEVELOPMENT SPECTRUM: LES MISERABLES
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- DEVASTATING RAMIFICATIONS OF HEATWAVE ACROSS THE DEVELOPMENT SPECTRUM: LES MISERABLES
With Mungeshpur, north New Delhi, recording an unprecedented temperature of 52.9°C on May 30, 2024, there have been heightened concerns of urbanisation and humidity. This uneasy sense, queasy feeling and dystopian heating saga is ubiquitous, e.g., temperature breached 40 °C in July 2022 in the United Kingdom, China’s northwest town recorded 52 °C in 2023, Sicily in Italy recorded 48.8 °C in 2021, over a dozen pilgrims died of heatstroke in Saudi Arabia, which was incinerated by sizzling heat waves.