Hukala has become one of the most respected meteorologists in the world. In the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he was advised by the leading climate scientist Jou Charni, and he rejected the proposal of the great Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Abdus Salaam and challenged the Butterfly Influry Theory, which shows that the status of the gradually developed Mahasa -boundary can offer. Until just four decades ago, scientific consensus was that the weather could not be estimated from ten days; Shukla’s work helped reverse the idea, which laid the foundation of modern seasonal prediction. In the 1980s, he played an important role in bringing India his first Cra super computer for weather forecasting. The 81-year-old Shukla is today a professor at a well-known university at the University of George Mason, where he erected the Department of Atmospheric, Ocean and Earth Sciences as well as the Center for Ocean-Bhele-Vymandal Studies. His recently published book, A Billion Butterflies: A Life in Climate and Caos, is a mix of memoirs, history of science and essential criticism. In this interview with Hindustan Times, Dr. Shukla his childhood, scientific successes and Indian meteorological conditions. You grew up in Mirdha in Uttar Pradesh, a village where there was no electricity or any proper school building. How did your early encounters affect your interest in weather and climate science with that environment and nature? One of my defined experiences in childhood was to go through a great drought. In 1972, when I was a graduate student at MIT, I returned to my village for a few days, and there was no food. It was a terrible drought, but at that time, not in India, not even in mit, no one could explain why it happened. Only ten or fourteen years later we got to know the temperature of the sea in the Pacific. It stayed with me. I thought from a young age: What can I do for my town? This question inspired my work. The rain was also worshiped and afraid of him. When it came the first time, it brought enthusiasm and happiness. But then it came and soon there was a flood. It was disastrous for those who were not rich. Most of the residents did not have proper homes, so water dripped or flooded in the rooms. I saw both his aspects long ago, hope and problems. Share this story -tags
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