Write an news report focusing on the changing weather conditions, goba
warming, lack of rains in time or untimely rains, damage of crops or lack of
irrigation water. number of deaths so far, and suggestions to check the suicides.
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Climate change and variability are concerns of human being. The
recurrent droughts and floods threaten seriously the livelihood of billions of people
who depend on land for most of their needs. The global economy is adversely being
influenced very frequently due to extreme events such as droughts and floods, cold
and heat waves, forest fires, landslips etc. The natural calamities like earthquakes,
tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, though not related to weather disasters, may
change chemical composition of the atmosphere. It will, in turn, lead to weather
related disasters. Increase in aerosols (atmospheric pollutants) due to emission of
greenhouse gases such as Carbon Dioxide due to burning of fossil fuels,
chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), hydrofluorocarbons
(HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs) etc., Ozone depletion and UV-B filtered radiation,
eruption of volcanoes, the “human hand” in deforestation in the form of forest fires
and loss of wet lands are causal factors for weather extremes. The loss of forest
cover, which normally intercepts rainfall and allows it to be absorbed by the soil,
causes precipitation to reach across the land eroding top soil and causes floods and
droughts. Paradoxically, lack of trees also exacerbates drought in dry years by
making the soil dry more quickly. Among the greenhouse gases, CO2 is the
predominant gas leading to global warming as it traps long wave radiation and emits
it back to the earth surface. The global warming is nothing but heating of surface
atmosphere due to emission of greenhouse gases, thereby increasing global
atmospheric temperature over a long period of time. Such changes in surface air
temperature and consequent adverse impact on rainfall over a long period of time
are known as climate change. If these parameters show year-to-year variations or
cyclic trends, it is known as climate variability.
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Climate change may have contributed to the suicides of nearly 60,000 Indian farmers and farm workers over the past three decades, according to new research that examines the toll rising temperatures are already taking on vulnerable societies.
Illustrating the extreme sensitivity of the Indian agricultural industry to spikes in temperature, the study from the University of California, Berkeley, found an increase of just 1C on an average day during the growing season was associated with 67 more suicides.
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An increase of 5C on any one day was associated with an additional 335 deaths, the study published in the journal PNAS on Monday found. In total, it estimates that 59,300 agricultural sector suicides over the past 30 years could be attributed to warming.