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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India Will Lose 101 Billion Labour-Hours a Year to Global Warming’s Effects -Aathira Perinchery

India Will Lose 101 Billion Labour-Hours a Year to Global Warming’s Effects -Aathira Perinchery

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published Published on Jan 31, 2022   modified Modified on Feb 1, 2022

-TheWire.in

* India will lose 101 billion work-hours a year to the effects of global warming, according to a new study.

* There is more scientific evidence to show how extreme weather, including rainfall, impacts economies worldwide.

* Another study found economic growth decreases when the number of wet days and the number of days with extreme rainfall increase.

Kochi: As the world becomes warmer, India will lose more than 101 billion hours of labour every year, the highest of any country in the world, according to a new study.

Working in hotter climes is inefficient and affects public health. An effective adaptation strategy is to move work-hours from the middle of the day to early in the day – but as the planet warms further, even this strategy will become less effective, according to the study.

Although there are some efforts in India to attempt to ameliorate the loss of productivity due to climate change, climate economists believe we still have a long way to go.

Working for many hours under a scorching Sun can become quickly tiring. The human body usually cools itself by sweating. But on humid days, sweat evaporates less easily because the air already holds a lot of moisture. As a result, the body doesn’t cool, sweats more, doesn’t cool as much, sweats even more, and so forth. So working outdoors in such conditions means more breaks, slower work and, most of all, adverse impact on workers’ health.

With global warming, such hot, humid days will be becoming more common in India. According to the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, India will experience more heat waves – spells of excessively hot weather often characterised by high humidity. Another report suggested heatwaves in India are also likely to last longer, by up to 25x, in the next four decades if carbon emissions remain high.

A team of scientists from the universities of Duke, Stanford, North Carolina and Washington used meteorological data from around the world and climate models to estimate humid heat exposure in various countries. They also compiled data on current labour losses to project labour losses under scenarios of additional warming.

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TheWire.in, 31 January, 2022, https://science.thewire.in/environment/india-lose-101-billion-work-hours-a-year-global-warming-effects/?fbclid=IwAR3_HQoe_qLBqxR-ojW6wSgt0kdXgbIgmcgEbdYbzF-qnBYECVl5lvcCxck


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