Farming and our climate discourse

Rural farmers don’t have access to climate experts who can help them with remedies.

The Sikkim floods have yet again brought to the fore the increased risks of large scale floods, the subsequent downstream damage caused by cloudbursts at high altitudes, and the bursting of expanding glacial lakes in a warmer world. Rightly, those eager to understand how the changing climate is impacting the environment and increasing the risk of hazards to our people and infrastructures have expressed their concern. As always, it has also attracted near constant media coverage.