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Podcast: In Focus by The Hindu
Episode: Is India prepared for the threat of extreme heat waves and a ‘wet bulb’ summer? | In Focus podcast
Description: There have been some dire predictions about how hazardous the heat is going to be this summer. India this year experienced its warmest February since 1877, and in November last year, the World Bank warned that India could become one of the first places in the world where wet-bulb temperatures could increase beyond the survivability threshold of 35°C.Furthermore, last month, Peter Dynes, chief strategy officer at Mirrors for Earth's Energy Rebalancing (MEER), tweeted that India this summer is at “serious risk of wet-bulb” if global temperatures continue to rise.So, what exactly is the wet bulb...