With a rise in global temperatures due to climate change, more than 70 per cent of Indians reported personally experiencing severe heat waves, as well as droughts and water shortages, according to a report on Tuesday, November 18. 

The report by Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, based on survey data collected between 2022 and 2025 from over 19,000 respondents, created Climate Opinion Maps that revealed how people’s experiences with extreme weather and their beliefs about climate change’s role in these events vary across India’s states and districts.