{"id":194925,"date":"2022-07-09T14:08:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T08:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=194925"},"modified":"2022-07-09T18:13:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T12:43:51","slug":"beating-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/beating-the-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Beating the heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> This post is created based on the article <strong>\u201cBeating the heat<\/strong>\u201d published in <strong>The Hindu<\/strong> on 9<sup>th<\/sup> July 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus:<\/strong> GS Paper 3 \u2013 Environment \u2013 Climate Change<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong>: Rising temperature is becoming a bigger problem with the days going by. Adapting to and mitigating this challenge is the need of the hour.<\/p>\n<p>The planet\u2019s temperature is rising consistently. Furthermore, an analysis of public weather data suggests that <strong>Monsoon temperatures are 0.3 \u00b0C higher than average summer temperatures<\/strong> when compared from 1951-80. From 2012-2021, this anomaly rose to 0.4 \u00b0C. Whereas<strong>, India\u2019s average temperature has risen 0.62 \u00b0C from 1901-2020<\/strong>. However, it does not mean a uniform rise in temperature\u00a0across seasons. Temperature is rising more during winter (January and February) and post-monsoon (October-December).<\/p>\n<p>From 2015-2020, 2,137 people reportedly died due to heat stroke in northwest India. While, southern India had reported 2,444 deaths due to excessive environmental heat, with Andhra Pradesh accounting for over half the reported casualties.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-what-do-you-understand-by-urban-heat-island-effect-highlight-the-factors-that-give-rise-to-the-phenomenon-of-urban-heat-island\/\">urban heat island effect<\/a><\/strong> is contributing to this stress. This phenomenon happens because of concrete surfaces, and dense populations tend to on average be hotter than rural habitations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are steps taken by the government to handle heat stress?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some states, led by Gujarat, have <strong>Heat Action Plans<\/strong> (HAP).<\/p>\n<p>The National Disaster Management Authority is working with 23 out of 28 heat-prone States to develop HAPs. <strong>HAPs stress changes in the built environment by<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>First,<\/strong> using material that keeps the indoors cooler<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second,<\/strong> having an early warning system about heatwaves<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third,<\/strong> improving health infrastructure to treat heat stroke patients.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What should be done?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Governments should take steps to plan infrastructure and housing in ways that recognize the dangers of a warming environment.<\/p>\n<p>India should include\u00a0financial incentives for effective cooling plans, preferably via Budget outlays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: This post is created based on the article \u201cBeating the heat\u201d published in The Hindu on 9th July 2022. Syllabus: GS Paper 3 \u2013 Environment \u2013 Climate Change Context: Rising temperature is becoming a bigger problem with the days going by. Adapting to and mitigating this challenge is the need of the hour. The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/beating-the-heat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beating the heat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10498],"class_list":["post-194925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704954073},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}