'The consequences of climate injustice are starkly visible,' said AIIndia.
: "Indian authorities must immediately, effectively, and impartially investigate these deaths. They should develop heat action plans consistent with human rights standards, to ensure that the rights of groups that are vulnerable to the health impacts of extreme heat are protected."
"India should step up climate action," the group added, "but wealthier countries must make no mistake about the important role they play."The heat in this part of India has been hovering around the critical "wet-bulb temperature," the threshold beyond which the human body cannot cool itself to a survivable point by perspiration, defined as 35°C , adjusted for 100% humidity. The wet-bulb reading in Ballia on Saturday reached 34.15°C .
As the newspaper observed: "The question is whether these are 'excess deaths,' of the kind that can be measured only statistically, or whether India's incrementally more unbearable weather is playing a more direct role in causing them, for instance by heat stroke. When more deaths are recorded than were expected, they count as excess. But that leaves open the question of what exactly caused them.
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