Tamil Nadu rain not due to warming: Centre
Striking a different note from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the government on Monday informed Rajya Sabha that the extreme rainfall that occurred in Tamil Nadu was “highly localised” and was part of the natural variability of the monsoon system and its attribution to global warming was “not established.”
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Although some studies have reported an increase in frequency and intensity of extremes in rainfall during the past 40-50 years, their attribution to global warming is not established,” Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said in a written reply in Rajya Sabha. It may be pointed out here that Prime Minister Modi on November 30 ahead of the COP21 meet in Paris, said “the unseasonal rains and flooding in Tamil Nadu are a consequence of global warming.” Extreme rainfall wreaked havoc, leading to massive flooding in many districts of Tamil Nadu recently. He said the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and assessment methodology used in India have indicated that extreme rainfall events are likely to be more frequent in the later part of the 21st century. “As regards (to) other extreme weather phenomenon, there are many other reasons for their occurrence which may not be related to climate change,” he said.
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