By Vijay Jayaraj
I grew up in the sun -lined levels of South India, where the summer temperatures often flirt with 104 degrees, I learned early that extreme heat is not an anomaly, but a seasonal reality that is to be expected. However, we all confront the metaphorical heat of indescribable rhetoric of climate alarmists who insist that our planet overheats beyond the point of the rescue.
In Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore), the city that I now call at home, climate stories often reflect global hysteria. Keeping headlines scream of “cross-roaring ruins” and “non-visible cities”, but the data-roh, in reality, and grounded, a different story that questions the exaggeration that regularly sweeps through the public.
On average, a Bengaluru -März experiences 17 days to which the temperatures reach or exceed 93 degrees. This year was no different. In March we recorded exactly 17 days of 93 degrees or more and more precisely with the 15-year average. Far from the apocalyptic predictions of endless heat waves, this summer was normal with one word.
In the past 15 years, from 2010 to 2024, temperature recordings for the months of February to May show us that there is no summer crisis. For example, the whole summer of 2018 only had 23 days over 93 degrees, while 2023 had 30 days. In contrast, there was 76 days in 2016. Does this attract an existential crisis? Or does it just confirm that the climate fluctuates? It is the latter.
Climate alarmism: a crisis produced?
It's not just temperatures. The wider climate count is laced with unusual predictions that do not come about. The prophecy “End of Snow”, the disappearance of arctic ice until 2013 and the frequent claims of the “hottest year ever” have proven to be misleading and, in the worst case, deceived.
Consider precipitation patterns in India that have a major impact on the livelihood of 1.3 billion people. There is a significant variability of the rainfall from year to year, which is typical of India due to the unpredictable nature of the Monsun.
The average annual precipitation between 2000 and 2023 shows that there is no crisis. The early 2000s recorded several significantly wet years, and in 2003 almost 49 inches showed precipitation. From the mid -2000s to the beginning of 2010 there was a remarkable decline in the precipitation, whereby 2009 was particularly dry. The latter segment of the data set from 2019 to 2022 shows a duration of increased rainfall levels.
There is no recognizable linear trend to increase or reduce the precipitation throughout the entire period. The data show fluctuations between humid and drier years. This variability underlines the complicated nature of the Indian monsoon system and its susceptibility to various climatic factors.
Now imagine that you ask the 14 million inhabitants of the city to give up your ambitions for an uninterrupted power supply, which is based on coal as a fuel for unreliable “green” technologies such as wind turbines to tackle an invented climate crisis.
Unfortunately, such inquiries are made by activists and media that ignore scenarios with the worst-case scenarios as inevitable peddle and historical weather records and honest science. The result? A public psyche that is prepared to consider every warm day as a sign of the apocalypse.
Individuals are not only exposed to feelings of guilt in relation to the alleged deterioration of the earth's climate, but they are also deceived that irregular wind and daily solar energy from Baseladeload can provide their urban and industrial centers.
The truth is that summer is hot, especially in the middle latitudes of my city. And there is nothing that can or should be against the climate industrial complex.
This comment was first published on April 21, 2025 at California Globe.
Vijay Jayaraj is science and research assistant at the CO2 coalition in Arlington, Virginia. He has an MS in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia and a postgraduate degree in energy management at Robert Gordon University in Great Britain and a Bachelor engineering at Anna University, India.
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