Heavy rainfall in India not associated with global warming

It is common nowadays to link spells of rainfall and the collateral damage they create to climate change. It is not the rains, but the urban mayhem and disaster bred by human incompetence, so characteristic of India, that is hyped by the breaking news hungry media.

A report published in The Hindu newspaper says that "...extreme rainfall events over India do not have significant association with land surface air temperature over India and sea surface temperature over central Indian Ocean..." The report, quoting a paper in Scientific Reports, says that the widely held belief that climate change is responsible over extreme rainfall patterns in the tropics does not seem to be true.

The authors recommend that "...the changing patterns of extremes over the Indian subcontinent need a scientific re-evaluation, which is possible due to availability of the unique long-term in-situ data."