And if nothing is done to slow climate change, the record temperatures and deadly heat waves it brings will only get worse, experts warn. "We are affected a lot by this unbearable heat, and we poor are hit the hardest," said Kuldeep Kaur, a resident of Sri Ganganagar in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan, bordering Pakistan. And the rising number of heat waves is devastating for farming and agriculture and potentially fatal for humans. And we know that these heat waves are multiplying," said climatologist Robert Vautard, head of France's Pierre-Simon Laplace Institute. With deadly heat waves increasingly a fact of life across the globe, many are pinning hopes on Glasgow.

Source: Manila Times October 29, 2021 05:05 UTC