CO2: 420.23 ppmThe weather analysis suggests that high temperatures that used to occur about every 300 years in India and Pakistan may now occur about every three years.
A deadly cholera outbreak blamed on contaminated drinking water has infected thousands of people in central Pakistan as the country grapples with a water crisis exacerbated by a brutal heat wave in South Asia.
What makes South Asia’s recent severe temperatures so surprising.
In northwest India and Pakistan, a UK analysis finds heat that used to occur every 300 years may now happen about every three years.
Latest analysis adds to evidence that the impacts of global heating are already damaging many lives around the world
Soaring temperatures in Pakistan and India have forced schools to close, damaged crops, put pressure on energy supplies and kept residents indoors. It even prompted experts to question whether such heat is fit for human survival.
"There is no doubt that climate change is playing a role here," a climate scientist told CBS News.
Record heat once seen every 312 years on course to happen annually by 2100, Met Office study says