Chennai floods: Climate change damage?

Heavy torrential rains in the past few days in southern India’s largest metropolitan city Chennai have brought the vibrant city to a standstill. The rains are said to be the heaviest in the last century. The Indian Army has been deployed for round-the-clock rescue and relief operations. As the Indian Meteorological Department forecast more rains over the next three days, leading Indian environment experts attending the Paris climate change summit have speculated that the crisis is the ‘full-blown impact’ of global warming.

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Climate changing? Modi-Sharif meeting in Paris sparks guessing game

Has the climate changed in the perennially prickly India-Pakistan relations? Or was it the Paris magic and collective pressure to cut out on emissions (read bad vibes)?. Whatever it was, the 160-second meeting between the leaders of India and Pakistan in Paris has made banner headlines, overshadowing more substantive discussions on the opening day of the global climate summit that is expected to birth a new green future for the planet and its inhabitants.

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