The floods in Chennai, the capital of the southern Indian manufacturing state of Tamil Nadu, have now resulted in the closure of the city's airport and forced global companies, such as BMW, Daimler, Ford and Renault, to halt production at local factories. Tamil Nadu is one of India's most significant manufacturing regions, housing global automakers as well as large Indian software outsourcing companies. This flooding is the latest in a line of weather-related disasters in India, with scientists predicting the country's north will become significantly hotter over this week generations, while India as a whole will become increasingly prone to floods, droughts, crop failures and cyclones. This latest disaster comes as Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi, stated the next two at climate change talks in Paris that "we are feeling climate change's fast growing impact now".
The floods in Chennai, the capital of the southern Indian manufacturing state of Tamil Nadu, have now resulted in the closure of the city's airport and forced global companies, such as BMW, Daimler, Ford and Renault, to halt production at local factories. Tamil Nadu is one of India's most significant manufacturing regions, housing global automakers as well as large Indian software outsourcing companies. This flooding is the latest in a line of weather-related disasters in India, with scientists predicting the country's north will become significantly hotter over the next two generations, while India as a whole will become increasingly prone to floods, droughts, crop failures and cyclones. This latest disaster comes as Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi, stated this week at climate change talks in Paris that "we are feeling climate change's fast growing impact now".