While April and May are usually the hottest months in many countries in Southeast Asia, hundreds of millions of people are now suffering in South Asia from an exceptionally intense heatwave that has killed hundreds. One expert has already called it the most extreme heat event in history. Record-breaking temperatures above 122°F were reported in the Indian capital of New Delhi, and temperatures sizzled to an unheard of 127°F in parts of India and Pakistan.
5°C above the historical average, as the 195-nation signatories to the 2015 Paris climate agreement had hoped. In fact, he projects that the target of 2°C will also be broken and that, by 2050 the global temperature will have risen above 3°C. Nor is his pessimism unique. Hundreds of other scientists have recently forecast a strong possibility of hitting 2.