Hi there, it’s Chris in Mumbai. It’s solely February however the mercury is already rising in India, a worrying indication of the increasingly early onset of devastating summer time warmth waves. But first…

Standing earlier than an annual gathering of local weather consultants and emergency officers in Mumbai earlier this month, Kamal Kishore, a bureaucrat at India’s National Disaster Management Authority, made an impassioned deal with urging options that may stop the lack of life and livelihoods as South Asia sees extra frequent — and brutal — heat waves.