Casting dark clouds on India’s climate change assessment, a government report says the average temperature by the end of this century could be up to 4.4 deg C higher than the 1976 to 2005 average.
India’s average temperature, it adds, was already up by around 0.7 deg C between 1901 and 2018, mainly as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.
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