Industry Odisha Bureau, May 2: While Climate Change and Global Warming are already a pestering problem now globally, “Super El Nino” has been a blot from blue this year as its adverse effect is not only being experienced in shape of intolerable heatwave conditions sweeping India, but also poised to be murderous for the erratic monsoon as the season is imminent, studies by meteorologists and oceanographers warn.
Media surveys have already reflected on the repercussions of the sizzling summer now sweeping across India unleashing an evil effect of eroding incomes of Indian street vendors as well as flinging them into debt trap besides inflicting them with heatstroke ailments let alone others those who are eking out a living from the sweat of their brows under open sky and scorching rays of the sun.
While the fresh joint report of the United Nations Organization (UNO)’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) anticipates that the Indian farmers, already hailing from a hot country, are very much likely to bear the brunt of unprecedented inability to work for the usual 250 days a year owing to the onslaught of rising heat. It has also been warned that the rising heat would prove to be wreaking havoc on future rice production, especially in India.
According to the joint report of WMO and FAO titled ‘Extreme Heat and Agriculture’, “The world food systems are under increasing stress due to a variety of factors caused by climate change, including livestock stress, repeated heatwaves affecting crop yields, and extreme heat preventing farmers from working. Taken together, this is threatening the livelihoods of over a billion people worldwide”.
A recent report released by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has further revealed: “Snow cover in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region is the lowest it has been in 20 years, i.e. 27.8% below normal. The HKH Snow Update 2026 report also states that this marks the fourth consecutive year of decline”.
As per reports, Climatologists (climate scientists) are now quite apprehensive because of the unbearable heat generated both by the ‘Super El Nino’ and the volume of heat already trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere owing to acute accumulation of carbon dioxide emissions.
Thus, the ‘climate catastrophes’ are very likely to play havoc not only on our pleasant planet we inhabit, but also terribly trouble India since it is obviously prone to superstorms, heatwaves, erractic rainfall and droughts.
Pertinent to note: “Forecasts indicate a “Super El Niño” risk for 2026-27, with Pacific sea surface temperatures potentially rising 2-3°C above average, mirroring intense events like 2015-16 or 1877-78. The phenomenon is expected to fuel record-breaking heat, with severe heatwaves already impacting parts of Asia in early 2026. The combination of a ‘super’ event, which typically occurs every two to three decades, and the ongoing background warming from climate change, raises concerns about unprecedented environmental stress.”
Moreover, “The India Meteorological Department (IMD) warns of a potential weak monsoon, with a 35% chance of below-normal rainfall (less than 90% of Long Period Average), more than double the normal risk, particularly affecting the latter half of the season.”
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