AIZAWL, April 16: Mizoram on Monday experienced
its hottest day in 20 years as
the mercury level touched
34.2 degrees Celsius. The
temperature has been increasing due to deforestation
in many areas of the State.
Sources from the Science
and Technology department
said the State has become
warmer by 2.75 degrees Celsius over the past 15 years,
against the average global surface temperature of 0.6 degrees Celsius to 2.5 degrees
Celsius. So it was not surprising when the temperature
reached 34.2 degree Celsius on
Monday, which is the highest in
20 years in Mizoram.
The maximum and minimum temperatures in the capital city of the State were 34.2
degree Celsius and 17.8 degree
Celsius respectively on Monday.
The Chief Scientific Officer of the Mizoram Directorate of Science and Technology RK Lallianthanga said that
the temperature has been increasing gradually.
“The present rate at which
Aizawl’s temperature is
climbing the scale is even
higher than the estimated
minimum rate of global warming for the next 50 years,” one
of the department officials
said, adding that a detailed
study on climatic changes requires a proper meteorological observatory, which the
State still lacks.
The main cause behind the
rapid increase in temperature
in Aizawl, according to officials, is the ecological imbalance caused by unplanned urbanisation, rather than the
greenhouse effect, which generally is the main reason in
the rest of the world.
“As we all know, Delhi’s
temperature is very high during summers. But the city has
large areas of man-made forests within it and its surroundings which prevent global
warming to a great extent,”
an official said.
The primitive slash-and
burn method of cultivation is
a major cause behind the massive destruction of forests and
its subsequent greenhouse
emissions. ~ Assam Tribune
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