Deal with floods, or shrug and invoke Mumbai spirit: Scientist AchutaRao

The question is not about scientific capability but to how close the gap between science and policy in action, says AchutaRao

Hurricane Irma has just devastated many nations. Closer home, nearly 17 million people in Bihar alone have been affected by floods. Storms and hurricanes will get bigger and occur more often, due to a rise in ocean temperatures. Sea levels are rising, and wildfires are growing. Bouts of heavy rain, as India has just witnessed, will increase and be hard to predict, even as the rainfall over India is likely to decline.

But this is today.

In the 1990s, when climate change was still a fledgling idea,