>But government authorities have underestimated the danger, the study found. Officials rely on a climate vulnerability assessment, designed by India’s Department of Science and Technology, that indicates a smaller percentage of the country faces high risk from climate change than the new findings suggest
The Indian state's persistent denial of science and criticism will continue to cost Indians their lives. It happened during COVID and will happen again in years to come.
There is a worse problem here - heat causes electric power demand to rise. No gigawatt-scale power grid anywhere on the planet has supplied increased demand through renewables. What will happen is simple - coal and gas output will increase and this is an unfortunate but vicious cycle. Carbon emissions will only make the problem worse in the short term.