India this year experienced its hottest March in 12 decades of records, and one of its driest. Next came the third-hottest April, after 2010 and 2016. Then it got even hotter. New Delhi saw an average maximum April temperature of 40.2° Celsius (104.4° Fahrenheit), according to the Times of India . The heat is jeopardizing the country’s wheat supply , just as Russia’s war in Ukraine disrupted trade from Eastern Europe. Temperatures in neighboring Pakistan’s Jacobabad rose to 47°C (116.6°F). The worst of the heat wave has now abated, according to the India Meteorological Department. Scientists are already investigating the extent to which carbon dioxide from power plants, cars and the rest of the fossil-fuel economy worsened the devastation. Global temperatures have climbed 1.2° Celsius since the mid-19th century. So when […]