India, March 20 -- Temperature rise in India has been lower than in the world's other parts as per the 40-year data from the US agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) but this will change and India will have to adapt to higher rates of warming, a Harvard University climate scientist has said.

"The good news is that India has not warmed as quickly. ...it is expected to warm faster in the next 20 to 40 years," said Harvard University's Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program co-director Daniel P Schrag at the four-day "India 2047-Building A Climate Resilient Future" conference on Wednesday.

He said aerosols or pollution radiating heat back and massive irrigation in agricultural lands, which leads to an increase...