Weather: Kerala CM bats for effective early warning systems

: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan Monday stressed the need to ensure that early warning systems work effectively as variations in climatic patterns due to global warming have increased the frequency of natural calamities.

Addressing the opening session of a world reconstruction conference in Geneva, Vijayan said Odisha, which recently faced the fury of cyclone 'Fani', succeeded in bringing down loss to human lives due to early warning systems.

"I would like to note here that during the first week of May, Fani badly affected Odisha. But damage to human lives could be controlled due to sufficient early warning," he said.

"This brings before us the fact that early warning systems should work effectively as the variations in climatic patterns due to global warming have increased the frequency of natural calamities like floods and cyclones,", he said while addressing the conference.

Vijayan said Kerala was devastated by the unprecedented floods in August last year ...