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People warm themselves up by a bonfire on a cold morning in the old quarters of Delhi on Dec. 27. Temperature in New Delhi has dipped to 40 degrees Fahrenheit, local media reported.
Kevin Frayer / AP
Indian rickshaw drivers warm themselves around a bonfire on a cold morning in New Delhi, India, Tuesday on Dec. 27. The dipping mercury has pushed the country-wide death toll to more than a hundred as north India continued to reel under biting cold conditions, according to news reports.
Northern India continues to face a wave of cold weather that has already caused the deaths of over 90 people. According to the BBC, most of the deaths have occurred among the homeless and elderly. We previously published a series of photos of the cold weather in New Delhi, taken by AP photographer Kevin Frayer.
See more images from India on PhotoBlog.
Kevin Frayer / AP
Indian men feed birds on a cold morning in New Delhi, India on Dec. 27. The dipping mercury has pushed the country-wide death toll to more than a hundred as north India continued to reel under biting cold conditions, according to news reports.
Tsering Topgyal / AP
An elderly woman sells newspapers wrapped in a shawl to keep warm on a cold morning in New Delhi, India on Dec. 27. The dipping mercury has pushed the country-wide death toll to more than a hundred as north India continued to reel under biting cold conditions, according to news reports.
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Ok, so it's cold. Is this unusual for the area? Is it another sign the atmosphere is becoming unstable? Or is it just par for the course? I've noticed even fewer isobars during the US summer, when they are normally fewer and far between. And even more isobars in the US winter, when there are normally more. The pressure gradients seem to have a wider range now. There was a tropical storm that had only 2 isobars, not any more than common low pressure cells. There have been summer weather fronts with no isobars at all. From the movement of the highs and lows, it appears the jet stream is acting in an unusual fashion. Might just be normal variability, but it sure looks weird to me.
Agreed. Nothing normal here. the thing is that we can't predict the weather pattern changes because we don't have anything to model it on, with the carbon PPE rising so fast, none of the pattern changes that we have studied so far can be used in our case, not even the supervolcano scenarios - not big enough, not hot enough, not geographically dispersed enough.
Well, the future will surely show what we are in for. Common sense tells us it will be very hard if not impossible to adopt for most folks, flaura and fauna.
Well, welcome to the world we live in. The people in that part of the globe are always crying for a hand out, but spend lots of money on A bomb development and the like. This time they should have got some stoves and make blanks instead of rugs.
India does not get any "hand-outs". India has to protect itself. India has been attacked by Pakistan several times. Pakistan has started at least 2 wars. India also has to protect itself against Red China. China has also attacked India in the past, starting a war.
I heard you. They use their valuable resources to make guns instead of stoves because they chose war over the health of their people. They must rethink where to put their valuable resources in.
The people doing the suffering and dying aren't the ones who affected policy. Direct your scorn at the people who are responsible (The Indian and US governments) not at the least of them who are powerless.
Another case of Global Warming I presume??? Oh, I forgot NOW the "experts" call it climate change@!! Funny how the wish to manipulate mankind for PERSONAL gain ( ie-stealing!) can change to whatever con seems to be working... wake up blind guides!!! WARNING your wallet is in their cross-hairs!!
Do you understand!!!??? BAN all egghead supposed science... especially the one's who are Government employed..
meare1,
Let's start by burning all books. Get rid of all this science and knowledge that is fattening the pockets of the Al Gores of the world. We don't need science to make money. All we need is desire and greed.
#6 You do know that global warming is melting the glaciers and big masses of ice on both north and south poles causing the ocean to cool up, resulting in lower temperatures around the globe right? or you just open your mouth and say things without thinking?
You can call it what you want...I call it messing with the kid
Northern part of India always experiences this kind of winters with temps even going below freezing and people cannot afford heating in homes, leading to deaths, especially of the vulnerable.
But the point is that if we were not consuming more than 25% of the world's energy while having a population that is 5% of the planet's population, the energy prices would be lower. Not to mention we should be using more of renewable (0 carbon footprint) energy to reduce the effects of "Global Warming" which is leading to "Global Climate Change".
keep telling yourself that next time you hop on a plane to go vacationing...no less than 8000 flights per day around the world...thats on hell of a lot of pollution
Someone should call tech support.
It's only perspective. We all experience a 12 month temperature cycle. If you measure beginning from the coldest day in the year, then you have 12 months of warming, likewise using the hottest day of the year you can say you have 12 months of cooling. Science has about 100 years of reliably recorded weather data to study. The man made global warming/climate change debate conceals a politically driven agenda, which at the root is you must have a big, all powerful government to protect you. Nothing government does is efficient or inexpensive. Government is not the solution, government is the problem.