Abnormal heat waves in India and Pakistan - "testing the limits of human survival"- experts said

Recently CNN.co.jp reported the following:

インドとパキスタンに異常な熱波、「人間の生存可能性の限界試す」と専門家

2022.05.03 Tue posted at 10:22 JST

  デリー（ＣＮＮ） インドとパキスタンが記録的な猛暑に見舞われている。気候危機の影響を大きく受ける両国は、何百万もの命が危険にさらされかねないと専門家は警鐘を鳴らしている。

インド気象庁によると、同国北西部と中部では、４月の平均最高気温が１２２年の観測史上、最高を記録。北西部で３５．９度、中部で３７．７８度に達した。

ＣＮＮの気象専門家によると、首都ニューデリーの４月の平均気温は平年を３度上回り、４０度を超える日が７日間続いた。熱波の影響で学校が休校になったり、作物に被害が出たり、エネルギー供給が逼迫（ひっぱく）したりした州もあり、当局は屋内にとどまって水分を補給するよう住民に促した。

隣国パキスタンも熱波に襲われ、同国気象庁によると、南東部シンド州のジャコババードとシビでは４月２９日の最高気温が４７度に達した。北半球の都市でこの日に観測された気温としては史上最高だった。

インドの暑さは今週には和らぐ見通し。しかし気候危機の影響で熱波は今後、さらに頻度が増して長期化すると専門家は予想、インドとパキスタンで１０億人以上が影響を受けると推測している。

気候変動に関する政府間パネル（ＩＰＣＣ）によると、インドは特に気候危機の影響が大きい。ＩＰＣＣの専門家チャンドニ・シン氏は「今回の熱波は前代未聞」と述べ、「激しさにも、到来時期にも、持続期間にも変化がみられる。専門家の予想通りだ。健康に対して連鎖的な影響が及ぶだろう」と指摘。「今回の熱波は人間の生存可能性の限界を試している」と語った。

Translation

  Delhi (CNN) India and Pakistan had been hit by record heat. Experts warned that millions of lives could be at risk in both countries, which were heavily affected by the climate crisis.

According to the Indian Meteorological Agency, in the northwestern and central parts of the country the average maximum temperature in April was the highest in 122 years of observation history. It reached 35.9 degrees in the northwest and 37.78 degrees in the middle.

According to CNN weather experts, the average temperature in April in the capital city of New Delhi was three degrees above normal, with temperatures above 40 degrees for seven days. In some states, heat waves had closed schools, damaged crops, and tightened energy supplies, and authorities urged residents to stay indoors and drink more water.

Neighboring Pakistan was also hit by heat waves, and according to the country's Meteorological Agency, the maximum temperature on April 29 reached 47 degrees Celsius in Jacobabad and Shibi in southeastern Sindh. It was the highest temperature ever observed in a city in the Northern Hemisphere on that day.

The heat in India was expected to ease this week. However, experts predicted that heat waves could become more frequent and protracted in the future as a result of the climate crisis, affecting more than a billion people in India and Pakistan.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), India was particularly affected by the climate crisis. "This heat wave is unprecedented," said IPCC expert Chandni Singh. " As experts have expected there are changes in intensity, time of arrival, and duration. It will have a chain effect on health." He said "This heat wave is testing the limits of human’s possibility in survival".

              So, due to climate change, in the northwestern and central parts of India, the country’s average maximum temperature in April is a new record. It is impacting the daily life of the Indian.