Even after three decades of growing wheat and rapeseed on his small plot in Punjab, India’s traditional breadbasket, Inderjit Singh was caught off guard by the heat wave that began rolling across South Asia early this spring. Temperatures in India typically peak in May before the start of monsoon rains. But this year they began hitting searing highs in March, with some days well above 40C (104F). Singh’s crops were ravaged. “There’s no way out for us,” says Singh, 58. “We can’t do anything about it.” By now, people in developed countries are used to dire predictions of the catastrophes that scientists say will become routine in a warmer world . In India and neighboring […]