Barely a fortnight after Cyclone Amphan struck the eastern and Cyclone Nisarga the western coast of India, a study by London-based Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) on impact of climate change has downplayed the impact of climate change over a 100-year period saying that overall rains, drought and cyclones have not seen much deviations. Experts on climate science and climate change, however, do not agree with this approach and say evening out trends for large heterogeneous geographical area like India will not give a correct picture.
“The scientific evidence simply does not support the idea of any link between drought and climate change. The IPCC (the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change) was right to express low confidence in any global-scale