Following the Uttarakhand disaster, the changing weather pattern has come under discussion once again. Recently, the Central Government informed in Parliament that incidents of heavy rains, floods, droughts, storms and rising winter heat in India have also increased in the last few years. Union Minister Harsh Vardhan said in a reply in the Lok Sabha that India's average temperature has risen by around 0.7 degrees in the last nearly 100 years and states like Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Delhi saw an increase in heat in the last few years while Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh witnessed an increase in terms of cold wave