Media report India's weather to fit doomsday narrative

American Thinker ^ | 29 Dec, 2022 | Vijay Jayaraj

[MtnClimber]

Northern India is experiencing a cold wave, with a surfeit of glib press claims about global warming.

At 39 degrees Fahrenheit, India’s ordinarily sweltering capital of Delhi experienced one of the coldest winter nights this year on Dec. 27.

Its region is home to 32 million people, with millions of them having no access to heating in their homes.

Neighboring states recorded below-freezing temperatures.

In contrast, nearly all of metro New York’s population of 18 million has home heating.

Delhi’s situation would be considered a humanitarian crisis in the U.S.

The Indian media’s attitude generally is to shrug off such winter events as an aberration of weather while treating high summer temperatures as proof of catastrophic climate change.

You see, Delhi, an ancient city that has been subjected to many invasions over the last thousand years, has recently been invaded by climate alarmism.

Every year, media outlets are quick to jump on summer hot spells. Even news outlets in the U.S. have begun reporting to audiences ignorant of Indian realities the occasionally extreme heat of the subcontinent as proof of dangerous global warming.

While city thermometers do at times record exceedingly high temperatures, the usual cause is the well-known urban "heat island" – a phenomenon that gets a boost even from the exhaust of air conditioning units in densely packed residential areas.

Usually ignored by the media is that summer heat is generally less dangerous than winter cold. There are multiple ways to adapt to heat. Increasing water consumption, limiting exposure to heat, weather-proofing roofs and increasing green spaces are among them. However, adaptation to cold usually requires a reliable heating source, something that is not readily available to the poorest in developing countries, particularly those which do not typically have cold weather where it wouldn't be needed.

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[entropy12]

I grew up in Western India. Back in 1940’s my town would regularly record temps above 110 F. But the term “global warming” was not yet in dictionary. And of course, in Dec-Jan was cold and there was no central heat or even electric heaters. We just wore warmer clothes and kept all the doors and windows shut.

Climate on earth has been changing for 5 billion years.
Earth gets ice ages followed by global warming on a regular basis. The cause is activity cycles in the Sun, which is Million times bigger than earth. USA Midwest will become unlivable when next ice age returns. In the meanwhile, enjoy the blissful warm period we are living in.

[nwrep]

Wow, what’s her name?