New Delhi, April 1 -- Temperatures -- maximum, minimum, or mean -- hit a record every month since last April, except for March this year, across India or in some parts of it, according to data from the India Meteorological Department's monthly climate summaries, an indication of how the climate crisis has impacted all seasons.
Heat affects lives and livelihoods in a country where 52% of agricultural land requires irrigation, and a significant proportion of the population works outdoors. Excessive unseasonal heat also disrupts cropping cycles and could affect productivity, sparking inflation in an economy that has just got the genie into the bottle again.
To be sure, India wasn't a global outlier. February marked the 19th month in the last...