Severe rains struck Dubai, inundating highways and the airport, prompting warnings for remote work. Footage of the unusual green-hued sky circulated online, capturing the surreal atmosphere. We talk with Mr. Gufran Beig, a renowned Meteorologist and expert on Weather on what to expect next in Dubai’s Rainy Saga.
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00:00 If you do cloud seeding occasionally, for example, in India, people are thinking that
00:04 when there is a very high pollution in Delhi, the clouds are there, but then a lot of debate
00:10 is going on.
00:11 This is the time summer, where there is a from the northwesterly winds comes and then
00:18 they provide a lot of storms and a lot of dust storms that keep coming on that.
00:23 I can say that a lot of finger is going for the tinkling of the nature which we are doing,
00:29 which is linked to the climate change.
00:31 Hello and welcome.
00:32 You're watching this special broadcast on One India.
00:34 My name is Pankaj Mishra.
00:35 What is happening in the neighborhood of India is something that not just Dubai, but the
00:40 rest of the world also had not seen.
00:42 Yes, it is flooding in Dubai.
00:45 And like how unprecedented scenes, people are running helter skelter, water on the runways
00:51 for the aircraft to land.
00:53 The whole city, seven emirates in total have been found under deluge.
01:00 The kind of response that is also required is proving to be inefficient and incomplete
01:08 as far as this new havoc is concerned.
01:13 Joining us on the broadcast is Dr. Gopran Beg from Safar and a meteorologist himself.
01:20 Dr. Beg, thank you so much for speaking to One India.
01:25 First things first, how did this whole thing happen in Dubai and how do you interpret it?
01:31 In fact, it is very unprecedented.
01:34 Normally in the Gulf, specifically when you see in Dubai, on an average there is only
01:39 112 mm per year rainfall, which is very less, you know, as compared to what you see in thousands
01:46 of mm in India and other places.
01:49 Now, this is the time, summer, where there is a, from the northwesterly winds comes and
01:56 then they provide a lot of storms and a lot of dust storms that keep coming on that.
02:02 What has happened recently, it is a very unprecedented.
02:06 Now, there are a number of explanations, scientists are working on that particular thing, but
02:14 there are a number of explanations which can be given one thing before getting into the
02:18 next question.
02:20 I can say that a lot of finger is going for the tinkling of the nature which we are doing,
02:26 which is linked to the climate change.
02:28 Right.
02:29 Absolutely.
02:30 This is something that not just the Middle East, but also the rest of the world is also
02:36 going through, questions are being raised, lots of platforms also there talking about
02:40 saving the mother nature.
02:43 Now, speaking once again specifically about the UAE, do you believe that the worst is
02:48 over?
02:49 Are we past that phase where almost the sky came down?
02:54 Or could we expect more rainfall as of now?
02:59 Do you believe that this weather pattern could impact the whole of the Middle Eastern region
03:04 also?
03:05 Well, in fact, this is, I would call it the beginning of the unusual catastrophic events
03:11 which are unfolding now.
03:14 This has happened in all the possibilities when you talk in a long term, the frequency
03:21 of kind of a unusual event, whether it remains a huge dust storm, or it remains a huge kind
03:28 of extreme rainfall, or it is a speed waves or pollution, dust coming from there, the
03:34 frequency in all likelihood are going to increase when you talk in terms of a long term, means
03:39 we are talking about a decade or so in the time to come.
03:42 But if you are asking for this season, I think it is once in a very rare kind of a thing
03:52 which has happened.
03:53 Probably a blue moon, but then time will say that all this blue will turn into the red
04:01 moon.
04:02 Absolutely.
04:03 Yes, our sympathies and our prayers are there with the people of Dubai and the scenes that
04:09 we are seeing on screen also and also, you know, splattered all across the media is something
04:16 that is unprecedented.
04:17 As I said in the beginning, also, Dr. Saab, you know, there has been a speculation about
04:23 artificial rains, basically adding to the crisis in the UAE.
04:28 And considering the recent events occurring, do you believe artificial rains have significantly
04:36 influenced Dubai's weather patterns?
04:38 See, Dubai and the Gulf countries mainly, they have started this cloud seeding and artificial
04:47 rain kind of a research.
04:50 In fact, that is one of those frontal research they started in meteorology with the help
04:54 of American National Center for Atmospheric Research.
04:59 And then, you know, South African University, they got into the collaboration and this thing.
05:04 And it's very frequent.
05:06 They have advanced quite a high level in that with the help of Western countries.
05:14 And they were paying some dividend to them also.
05:17 But you know, the larger point is that nature has put some kind of rules, its own rules,
05:27 which is what is called climatology.
05:30 So there is a climatology for each season, which we talk about, climatology means we
05:35 are talking about a decadal kind of a pattern, geography and all those.
05:40 Now, when you are doing this cloud seedings, and that well, if you do cloud seeding occasionally,
05:48 for example, in India, people are thinking that when there is a very high pollution in
05:52 Delhi, the clouds are there, you can do but then a lot of debate is going on.
05:56 But if you keep on doing frequently such kind of a thing, obviously, you are trying to tinkling
06:03 with the nature.
06:04 And when you would like to do this kind of thing, nature will have its own pushback mechanisms.
06:13 Right.
06:14 Right.
06:15 Absolutely.
06:16 Absolutely, sir.
06:17 And as I speak to you, I mean, I see pictures also, you being facilitated, felicitated by
06:24 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister there, and several other dignitaries.
06:29 Your word counts here a lot, sir.
06:33 On the larger scale, one final question that I want to know from you is that events like
06:38 these, which are not heard or not seen in the past, I mean, this is not just happening
06:44 in Middle East.
06:45 If I talk to you about, say, African continent, also, things are changing.
06:49 We have seen what kind of floods and rains have happened in the US, the kind of weather
06:54 changes, extreme heat in cities like London in Europe, where people are not accustomed
07:00 to it.
07:01 Extreme cold also in parts of America, which used to never see subzero temperature, have
07:07 now started seeing that as well.
07:09 So and India too is not different.
07:11 I mean, living in metropolitan cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, for that
07:16 matter, Bengaluru, suddenly there's a lot of rain, weather pattern changing, a lot of
07:20 heat there in Bengaluru also as of now, which was considered to be a better place as far
07:24 as the weather pattern was concerned.
07:26 What is the bigger picture, sir?
07:28 Do we need to be more serious?
07:30 Because we have seen concerted efforts coming in from India's side.
07:33 Solar energy is coming into picture.
07:36 India pitching the values of green energy solutions also.
07:41 Do you think that all the world needs to come together on this?
07:45 See, the major problem in all of them, well, I do not see only in fact our country is still
07:52 promoting, you know, the solar energy, non-conventional sources of energy, but looking at a broader
07:57 picture globally, instead of targeting the real issue, real crux of the problem to solve
08:04 that, we are getting into the shortcuts.
08:08 And that is where the problems are, you are tinkling with the nature.
08:11 So that is a terminology which has been tossed some couple of years back called geoengineering.
08:18 This geoengineering is something where you try to take a shortcut and try to temporarily
08:26 get a relief out of that.
08:28 And cloud seeding is one of them.
08:31 In fact, instead of that, you know that all these things are happening due to the climate
08:38 change.
08:39 What is the cost behind the climate change?
08:41 What is the major reason that greenhouse gases are increasing?
08:44 Greenhouse gases are coming from where?
08:47 Can we get into new technological solution for the replacement of coal, which is generating
08:53 the power, replacement of fossil fuel emissions, diesel, this kind of research, fundamental
09:01 research on the directly attacking the problem need to be promoted and need to be, and India
09:09 that way, you know, with this new startup, and then, you know, the bigger cities which
09:15 are coming, smart cities, missions and all, we are doing pretty well in this kind of thing.
09:20 But in between, you know, keep something like a smoke tower game with crores of spending,
09:27 but then finally we know what was the outcome, which I did tell after three years back.
09:32 Yes, yes.
09:33 I'm going to hop in.
09:34 It is as good as putting the air conditioning in the open sky and expecting a cooling there.
09:41 So you know, very small.
09:42 Yeah, very small.
09:43 So my bottom line, my thing is that in all of them, you need to tackle, attain a fundamental
09:53 problem rather than searching for a, for a shortcuts and getting into the problems which
10:00 you do not know what problem can come.
10:05 Yes.
10:06 Does it apply on India and the world alike, sir?
10:08 Or are we talking in reference to India only as of now?
10:11 No, no, no, no.
10:12 It's basically, it applies to the world, all around the world.
10:15 In fact, this geoengineering and all those things are being tossed in the Western countries.
10:20 Western countries.
10:21 Absolutely.
10:22 There's a cloud seeding.
10:23 Normally our thing, we small little bit of things, we smarter and get a lot of amplified
10:27 in the international arena.
10:28 But we are getting a lot of things like solar energy, that electrical EVs, we are among
10:35 that.
10:36 But then basically all this terminology and all these things are coming up.
10:39 For example, even the smoke, the tower, is for technology from there only.
10:43 Now little bit of tinkering with the nature is okay.
10:47 Nature has some kind of an inertia which can absorb that.
10:53 Yes, the mechanism.
10:54 Yes.
10:55 But then if you cross a limit, then there would be a backlash.
11:00 Definitely, sir.
11:01 Dr. Baig, it reminds me, your prophetic words remind me of what Mahatma Gandhi said that
11:08 nature can suffice your need, but not your greed.
11:13 As of now, we need to put a full stop, I would say, and take things very seriously here.
11:18 What is happening in Dubai, what has happened in the US and other parts of the world is
11:23 something that is obviously could be prevented.
11:26 Dr. Gurufan Baig, founder, project director, SAPAR, which is System of Air Quality and
11:31 Weather Forecasting and Research, and a noted meteorologist.
11:34 Thank you so much, sir, for speaking to One India.
11:36 We hope to see you more on our channel and learn from you, from your insights and from
11:41 your knowledge.
11:42 Thank you so much, Dr. Baig.
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