On and behind these hills  surrounding of famous Amber fort of Jaipur was famous shooting range of earstwhile Maharaja of Jaipur and almost in until 1920s to 1940s period hunting tiger in this range was not uncommon, meaning thereby the forests were so dense that wild animals have their habitat.
Now in 2010 see those hills again. Plants are gone, hills are barren, pink city of Jaipur 15 degree more temperatures in month of April this year as compared to previous records and Rajasthan for that matter had temperatures more than 49 degree for several days.
What is climate change ? Is destruction of vegetation and change local microclimate is not leading to climate change at local level. If such changes are happing all over the world will the climate change not follow soon if you still dont believe it has already taken place.

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