A heatwave is baking in South and Southeast Asia.
In India, schools in several states have been closed.
While in Thailand, health officials have warned people to stay home to avoid heatstroke.
Al Jazeera’s Tony Cheng reports from Bangkok, Thailand.
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Waiting for monsoon
Effect of climate change
Yes, changing from dry climate to rainy climate, to dry climate again. Scary stuff.
Guys let’s start massive Afforestation
It’s climate change man,every year it gets hotter.
It’s not going to be easy esp with an El Nino coming after 3 years of good monsoon
Billions of people means more energy, food, water and other resources are required, which will make climate change worse. Unfortunately, territorial, cultural and racial conflicts have been encouraging population growth race
Hundreds and thousands of people die globally every because health problems, vehicles accidents, etc etc so
@dudeDude Population is rising faster than ever though, despite lower birth rates, these apply to a much higher number…
Every govt: Everything is fine and under control 😂
Even here in the Philippines is getting hotter and hotter every day.
honestly Thailand does also creates a massive amount of plastic waste they should try to reduce it because Plastic waste is quite bad for the environment and bad for Ecosystem as well
You don’t know what’s you’re talking about
@Sir Man bro do you even know why there have been such a massive amount of heat wave ? I’m a Pakistani I know it because my country has suffered a lot because deforestation and destroying the green areas of the country Thailand including other east asian countries have the highest amount of Plastic waste even though they have an extremely low population then countries like Pakistan , China, India etc
@Syed Asif Hussain Thailand has a small population but they are one of the most visited countries in the world (population 65M, tourists 40M) which certainly contributes to the problem. Claiming the number of population alone therefore may not reflect the truth.
Aceh is very hot too
its been over 10days now..we are getting 40-42 here in Dhaka, Bangladesh..its getting worse and worse..tho some of the rural areas having rain from yesterday but the capital seems to have this scorching heat for few days more it seems
The UN and WEF want to kill you off with heat .. FACT
Same here in Kolkata too, we are baking at 42 degree Celsius from last two weeks without a drop of rain.
@Napoleon Bonaparte we just had that most desiring rain minutes ago..for tomorrow, EID day (most probably) we really needed that..
@Ahmed Hossain Here in Kolkata also from the late afternoon it’s cloudy and fine cool wind is finally blowing from the southern direction from Bay of Bengal.
@Napoleon Bonaparte good to hear that… 🙂
Imagine temperature if sun wore bikini😅😅
Normal day for original Afrikans in west afrika
Java Indonesia still 27-33 rain season but I don’t know here feel hotter than usual
In Bangladesh we’re living inside a microwave oven 🥵
It’s 28°c even in the night
May Allah ease our brothers problem
In Chittagong it is 33°C
@Obaidullah Sujon ওবায়দুল্লাহ্ সুজন in my Country Philippines the Maximum of 42 to 50°C dipends of other places in the Philippinez
Pakistan’s current temperature is kinda good at the moment
@HM it’s currently April and the weather is pretty good as compared to june July
@MuneebMakes yeah little bit in second phase of ramdan
Pakistan is a big place with different temperatures (and people with different abilities to adapt to temperatures).
@30 second’s behind I can’t come in April. I did come in January this year and it was cold but also quite nice. June July August are very hot. Very hard to cope for so long
@HM yeah we have mix seasons
true, I am in Indonesia
in the past few days I can feel the heat
even right now at night time, I got sweat all over me
Because of chinas artificial sun 🌞
Here it was 44°C today and 29°C at night
i got a universal solution,,
people shall work at night and sleep at morning
Wrong data on Thailand’s RAINY SEASON. The water festival is not about the rainy season. Get help!
It’s not a coincidence, the other main festival is also about rain with Loi Krathong at the end of the rain season, same for Songkran it marks the end of the dry season, that’s why they splash water on everyone.
Both are Buddhist events, but in Europe Christian days also correspond to annual weather changes, with Christmas at the end of the year for the winter solstice, and Easter to mark springtime, and both replaced ancient traditional festivities related to the seasons and weather, important for agriculture…
here in the philippines i think the temperature is normal.. but the past recent years is really hot it reach 60⁰c in heat index
Not true.
Semarang, Indonesia is hot. Yeah hotter than ussual but not hotter than several years ago
We’ve had good weather as the rains have started Alhamdulillah. May God Bless all of the planet from the effects of global warming. Also start rain water harvesting, so the extra rainfall can be harnessed for the dry season, rather than flowing into the ocean.
Good news. Let me know your country?
@binu pg Search at Google history of Bangladesh
God doesn’t care a bit about you or global warming.
Im from sri lanka and the temperature in more than 36c
Aur pedo ko kaaato madharchodo
Plant bamboo. One newly planted bamboo plant can sequester 2 tons of carbon dioxide in just 7 years. In comparison, a typical hardwood tree will sequester 1 ton of carbon dioxide in 40 years. When compared to pine, bamboo can absorb up to 5 times more CO2.
I didnt know that.
Last year had over 37 billion metric tons of Co2 from all global emissions, you would need 6 earth equivalents of extra land mass to plant enough bamboo to absorb that much Co2.
What your suggesting is akin to using paper towels to stop all the extra water from sea levels rising… the effort is nothing but futile and wasted.
@Known I was trying to give a possible fast solution to the heat wave. There’s a bamboo grove along one of the streets of a town in my province. Everytime I pass by on my motorbike, I can feel at least 2 degrees C of a sudden drop in temperature.
I will believe your figures. But the thing is, with the comparison between bamboo and hardwood trees, bamboo is the clear winner when it comes to carbon capture. Aside from that, bamboo doesn’t need much water and is fast-growing, and has myriad uses.
We need to buy time. According to Google, studies have shown bamboo can produce 27.38 million tons of oxygen yearly in India, mainly due to how quickly it grows. Additionally, one hectare of bamboo forest may sequester 12 metric tons of carbon annually — equal to 26,000 pounds. The rate of sequestration can potentially slow global warming.
Your bamboo idea is actually a deception to most people. It requires the bamboo to SPREAD. The tree only needs to be one tree! Your comparison is thus highly specific to artificially limited situations where someone is ridiculously limited to planting one tree or they can plant bamboo that spreads out over a large area.
I agree bamboo grows quickly. That is really not going to matter. The CO2-induced warming is going to keep going for centuries unless hyper-radical methods are invented and employed to reduce it.
Finally, bamboo is extremely invasive and deprives wildlife of life-sustaining ecosystem! Walk into a bamboo patch and look at how few things are living there. It is like a perfectly kept lawn. Almost nothing exists there but the bamboo. It is a life-form diversity desert. I hope people don’t want a boring world like the one you propose.
[edit: I saw your response to someone else. Here is my response to that.] Yes, btw, adding vegetation to an area can typically help to cool it. The vegetation provides evaporative cooling. If the vegetation is tall enough, it can provide shade. Also, if the vegetation is massive enough (like a forest), it adds “thermal inertia” (increased heat capacity) and may slightly reduce temperature variation. This last part, though, is not as important as the first two things. So, yes, for quick solution in a city, bamboo can help. However, outside of its native areas it is a robustly invasive species. And it eliminates the diversity of wildlife.
@jeff beck Interesting info. It can definitely be grown in small areas.
Alhamdulillah.. In Malaysia also hot n dry.. Very bad for throat.. But then in evening there always rain..alhamdulillah wif the blessings
Malaysia is very blessed. Never have we experience extreme temperatures, it indeed is blessed and bountiful.
Malaysia still safe from extreme weather because it place really near equator and still have plenty rain even in warm season.
Just please don’t cut the trees and take care the rainforest. Rainforest save Malaysia from extreme weather.
Its going to be 71F (21C) here in North West Florida.
That’s cold for Southeast Asia.
Given that we now have between 88-97°F (31-36°C) at 2 pm
How interesting
We need to celebrate india population overtakes china and will become 2 billions peoples in 2050 horray to india
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*i rather have it hot 116 F ( 47 C ) then 16 F ( -8 C )*
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*i like the warm hot weather but I don’t like the cold freezing cold winter weather*
It’s 4C in Canada right now, I can’t take this heat.
@hanako /ᜑᜈᜃᜓ ᜀᜐᜋᜒ🐼 cope
Convert to Fahrenheit. You get more temperature! 😉
Ah, yes. As if -27C wasn’t bad enough. 🥵
Thai is heat???? 😂😂😂
I think in 40 degree ground, you will be melting like an ice-cream 😅
Here in khulna 43° heatwave
Colombo, Sri Lanka 35°C
Sri lanka 😰😰😰😰
I am from Bihar,India
Temprature is 44 degree
Well, 22 degrees is extremely comfortable, so is 44 not twice as comfortable? ;-D
If you could change with 11°C and cloudy, do you would change?
Heavy rain and thunderstorms will hit Thailand on 25th this month from weather broadcast
Come down the southern of Thailand the heat around 40 C at night 28C coz of the sea wind
Alhamdulillah born in Kashmir. 🥰🥰
Heat wave ang flooding happening all at the same time would be far more catasthropic.
They’re heat’n up!
JD
There will be no rain in India for 1 yr. Mark my words
Srilankens are also suffering from this hot climate.
In North India its 44.4 degree in day and 32 degree in night
Is it possible to survive this without air conditioner?
That night temperature is a problem. As many articles in the media have been pointing out, people need to cool off at night or their health can weaken.
@Urkern don’t worry indoor temperature is always like 24-27 C
And now it’s raining so temperature is milder (36-23) right now it’s 30° C 11:30 AM cloudy may rain
Thailand is southeast Asia. Get a map Al Jazeera
But here in Kashmir we are still freezing.
Its still to hot from many days what happened? My skin are getting sunburned without exposing to the sun?
Thailand is Southeast Asia, not south Asia.
this winter wont end until 4/28………………..
As you may know, global warming is a natural process that occurs over time on Earth. We have gone through periods of both global warming and global cooling in the past, and it is a cycle that will continue to repeat itself.
As EVERYONE knows, some things can be either natural OR MAN-MADE. If I start a forest fire, that is NOT natural.
If you had a reasonable amount of wisdom, you would know that you should not speak of things you don’t sufficiently understand. Technically, ANY gas emitted by HUMAN ACTIVITY will result in increased temperatures of Earth’s surface. However, this effect is only extremely negligible for the two major gases of the atmosphere (molecular nitrogen and molecular oxygen). On the other hand, this temperature effect is MORE SIGNIFICANT for CO2. THIS IS A PHYSICAL FACT THAT YOU SIMPLY CANNOT REFUTE. It is a basic fact of physics that ANY collection of molecules has the property of emitting and absorbing radiation! If you don’t accept this fact, you don’t accept nature. Of course, this means when mankind emits gases, mankind influences the amount of radiation that the surface of Earth will be receiving from the atmosphere. When the surface of Earth receives more radiation, which is energy, then it warms because that radiation energy is converted to heat energy. Again, this is very old information and iirrefutable.
Since the middle of the **19th** century (yes, the century **before** the last one), scientific discovery led to understanding that all objects both absorb AND emit radiation. Even back then, it was understood that any surface absorbing radiation with a certain efficiency would also be emitting radiation at an equivalent proportional efficiency of its temperature. Later work in spectroscopy revealed that the Earth’s atmospheric components generally have a reduced amount of absorptive and radiative efficiency in the region of 8-12 microns (the photon wavelengths). This is nicknamed the “infrared atmospheric window”.
The same kind of research showing the atmospheric window also showed that CO2 is relatively more efficient at absorbing AND EMITTING radiation in this window when compared to the average atmospheric components. This means if you add CO2 into the atmosphere, then the atmosphere WILL absorb more radiation than it did before, especially in the 8-12 micron “window”. It also means that the CO2 will EMIT RADIATION more effectively than the overall atmosphere. Since adding CO2 increases the efficiency at which the atmosphere radiates, it means the surface is GUARANTEED to receive and absorb more energy as a result of that extra CO2. When the surface absorbs more energy, the temperature goes up.
Thus, when humankind emits incredible amounts of CO2, humankind raises the surface temperature compared to what it would have been without the addition. These are unrefutable facts about radiative physics. They can be proven in the field, and even in a tabletop experiment.
As humankind began burning fossil fuels and also destroying forests, humankind HAS been causing the atmosphere to RAPIDLY accumulate CO2 faster than seen in history AND to higher levels than ever seen in human history. Either one of these facts spells out problems for humankind. Together, they WILL bring out about changes that lead to deaths of many humans and additional suffering for many, many more.
W bombasie .I love the as you may know ??!What a pile b.s. It is typical of someone who doesn’t have a clue
Well written.
BS. It only shows us that global warming CAN be natural. You didnt show us that the CURRENT global warming IS natural.
This misinformation is the reason our children will suffer alongside with their children
The monsoon will fail this year 🙄
My testicles are burning
Laser rain cloud technology needed
Jakarta is also very hot in the last 2 weeks…….
Southeast Asia ……not south asia
Only Thailand
Gis a bit of sunshine. It’s freezing here in the uk
😢Bangladesh😢
Drink Bud Light. They’re having a sale.
All thanks to China 🇨🇳
Wasting water when it needed most
in my building neighbour cut down trees to park cars. ban cars . they are the problem. to reduce carbon emissions. build more trains.
Replant forests, stop using wood as materials. Forests will reduce heat of the planet. Governemnts refuse to take action in key points. Forests are more important than anything.
I repeat. We must pressure governments to take trees seriously and introduce global reforestation projects. We need a GLOBAL REFORESTATION DAY
Doomsday is Coming 😲
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Turkey and UAE countries quickly intervean in sudan to stop this clashes, being a Muslim country it’s shameful act doing by Sudan Army in the holy month of Ramadaan
Earth ionization is the new technology used to rise temperature to kill people.
We also suffer Heatstroke in Bangladesh 15 days after that Alhamdulillah we are enjoying Raining.
plant water
Thank God Malaysia is still consierably better. Sustainable development; developed and still maintain the green areas is what sustaining Malaysia.
notice the farmer said 7 years ago it was not this hot , what do the next 7 years bring, the climate system is going to crash