India is a global warming hole, and scientists aren’t sure why. Really!

Is this not curious! Here is one more reason why Global Warming is a hoax and Climate Change is a religion!

What this article implies and exposes:

1. India may not be the only warming hole on Earth. How about dense population centers in China?
2. Climate models and their forecasts are junk for many reasons, this is one of them
3. Thick air pollution is actually good to mediate Global Warming. 😊
4. How does this warming hole (or cooler than normal) compare to the urban heat island effect?
5. Climatology is quite often comparable to junk science (e.g. Michael Mann's hockey stick) or more favorably to a nascent science lacking knowledge and unable to explain a complex natural phenomenon like climate. See e.g. all these hypothesis below.

"At a recent conference here on climate change in India, scientists put up a startling slide. On a world map showing how 2024 temperatures deviated from a historical baseline, many countries were colored deep red, denoting an increase of 1°C to 2°C. But one large, pale spot stood out in the tropics. ...

As Indians gird themselves for what could be a third summer in a row of extreme heat, they might be surprised to hear their country is warming more slowly than many others. Last year, India saw its highest recorded temperature and its longest spell of heat waves. But annual mean temperatures have risen by less than 0.7°C since 1901—about half the global average. ...

Air pollution is a leading hypothesis to explain the slow warming. Over the densely populated Indo-Gangetic Plain, which stretches across northern India from Pakistan to Bangladesh, industry, urban traffic, dust, cooking, and crop fires conspire to produce some of the world’s worst air pollution—including aerosols that reflect solar radiation and may help cool the region. ...

Another recent study found that pollution control in China raised the average temperature there by 0.1°C between 2013 and 2019. ...

A third possible explanation is the dramatic expansion of irrigation in northern India over the past century. As water evaporates from soil or is transpired by plants, it absorbs heat from the air. ...

India’s slower warming ... mainly reflects the country’s location in the humid tropics and variability in the climate system. Pollution and irrigation might affect warming locally"

India is a global warming ‘hole,’ and scientists aren’t sure why | Science | AAAS "Despite its extreme heat waves, the country’s decadeslong warming trend amounts to half the global average"

Can you spot other warming holes? How about southern South America and southern Africa?