20 What are we missing when we only talk about rising temperatures?

Lifelong Learning With A. A. Khatana · Aug 22, 2026 · 19m

We often reduce the conversation about our changing planet to a single metric: rising temperatures. However, focusing solely on heat overlooks the complex, interconnected disruptions affecting wind patterns, rainfall duration, and seasonal cycles.In this episode, we explore how global warming sits within the larger scientific framework of climate change. Human activities such as burning fossil fuels like petrol and diesel, urban expansion, and cutting down forests to build roads and power stations act as primary catalysts. These developments trigger severe reactions, causing summers to become…