Heat wave impact

Heat
One common worry of all of us these days is that is that if temperature is sizzling hot at this time of the year, what is going to happen in the months especially designated to be the hottest. Bring this topic up and you will know n number of people who share the same misery of a dreadfully hot summer in the months to come. Not putting any of there worries to rest, Indian Meteorological department in a statement said, “Above normal temperature upto one degree Celsius are likely to prevail over all meteorological sub divisions of the country except north west India where temperatures are likely to be more than one degree Celsius above normal”. We have already experienced the hottest springtime in our living memory and an unusually warm January and February. “This was the eighth hottest January in the last 11 years”, according to IMP.
These soaring temperatures have already taken its toll in Maharashtra which witnessed the first heat causalities of 2017. Three people have reportedly died due to intolerant weather conditions in Nagpur which had never seen earlier temperature rise above 40 degree Celsius but has crossed this mark four times already this year. Atleast 700 people died due to severe heat waves in the country last year which was recorded as the hottest year ever and this year is no respite.
While none of us is oblivious to the reasons of this global rise in temperatures, not many of us would have thought of thanking that one person who gave us much of the respite from summer heat – the man who invented AC (Air Conditioner), also known as 'Father of Cool' – Mr. Willis Carrier. He figured out a way to compress gases to condition the air in a confined space.
There would be hardly any disagreement to a fact that much of our worry these days start not on seeing the angry sun gazing at us taking its revenge of the green house gases that we throw upon him but it ticks when power goes off and our dear friend AC dozes off.
It amazes me to think how air around us can be conditioned in a way that it brings heat levels down to none but also makes me ponder is that while we have deviced ways to cool the air of a confined space, we have yet to discover how to bring the heat that builds inside us down by even a few notches. A recent incident where a shiv sena MP, Mr. Ravindra Gaikwad hit a 60 year old Air India staffer for his inability to let Mr. Gaikwad fly in a business class in an all economy aircraft bears testimony to the fact that our tendency to get aggressive on trivial matters lands us in hot waters metaphorically if not literally in this already miserable heat.
However the shiv sena MP is not alone in this aggressive display of irresponsible emotions but we as twitteratis and 24X7 facebook addicts are always quick in waging a war of hurling abuses and insults. This was evident when we as patriotic but insecure Indians took on snapchat CEO by his horns for his right to make opinion of our country being poor in his board room meeting based on recent world bank data according to which India has the largest number of people living under $ 1.90 a day.
It is high time that we as a responsible citizen realize which issues are worthy of our time and energy and not engage ourselves in disappointing situations just in the heat of the moment.

Ashima