India Will Likely Have Sudden Hot And Cold Sea, And Worse Natural Disasters

You may or may not understand this term clearly, but you must have heard of El Niño at least once in your life. It’s a very popular climate pattern on Earth when pools of water in the Pacific Ocean get abnormally warm, which triggers changes in the planet’s weather patterns.

And if you still doubt the existence of climate change, you will see obvious evidence in the near future when it awakens an ancient climate pattern similar to El Niño in the Indian Ocean. The findings were revealed in a new study on Wednesday, saying that weather will become even more unstable due to the climate crisis, especially in places depending on rained agriculture like India.

The new study is based on a previous study published in 2019 that discovered this climate pattern taking place in the Indian Ocean that could date back to 20,000 years ago in the Ice Age. Back then, the natural causes-driven abrupt global warming ruined global weather patterns.

Meanwhile, at present, the climate has become unsteady due to human activities. To find out the influence of increasing carbon emissions on the Indian Ocean, climate models were used to indicate what the world will look like in the rest of the 21^st century unless world leaders take action to fight greenhouse gas emissions. The findings were that if global warming goes on in the current trend, the surface temperatures of the Indian Ocean will experience huge fluctuations by 2050, which is similar to the incident from 20,000 years ago. And do I need to tell you the Indian Ocean directly affects India?

The lead author of the study, Pedro Di Nezio, said:

“The Indian Ocean today experiences very slight year-to-year climate swings because the prevailing winds blow gently from west to east, keeping ocean conditions stable. According to the simulations, global warming could reverse the direction of these winds, destabilizing the ocean and tipping the climate into swings of warming and cooling.”

Although the two phenomena are different, the potential new climate pattern would have links with El Niño and La Niña. After every 3-7 years, temperatures would go up or down by 2 degrees C, depending on if it’s El Niño or La Niña. The changes would last from three months to half a year.

Though 1 or 2 degrees may not seem like a large change, if the pattern emerges again, certain areas in the world will suffer from heavier and more frequent natural disasters (like droughts, storms, and floods), including India, Indonesia, Australia, and Africa.

There could be disastrous consequences, especially in locations relying on rained agriculture like India.

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