The cloudbursts and torrential rains experienced by the western Himalayas and Sikkim in 2023 are curtain raisers to a future that is already upon us, and will become more pronounced with every passing year of excessive fossil fuel consumption. Being a minor contributor to the global greenhouse gas emissions, there is very little that India can do to arrest global warming and thereby, the changes taking place in the Himalayas. All that the future governments can do is to adapt to the changes and minimise the damages. For this, we need to understand just how global warming has begun to affect the climate in and around the Himalayas.
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