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Guest Blog: Pakistan Flooding: Impacts, Attribution, & Adaptation Solutions
21/08/10 08:03
by Hammad Naqi Khan, WWF-Pakistan Programs Director
We cannot attribute these floods in Pakistan solely to climate change but labeling them as an extreme weather event that probably has a climate change component is logical; the current seasonal monsoon rains and flows in the Indus river and a few of its tributaries are a 1 in 100 year event. The signature of climate change will take some time to quantify, but 2010 has a confluence of weird weather that probably has a link to human-induced climate change. Consider: 2010 is the globally warmest year on record to date, the record high temperatures and wildfires in Russia, the exceptionally high rainfall and mudslides in China, the below average rainfalls in Bangladesh and most of India, and extremely high rainfall and flows in northern Pakistan rivers (which carry snow/glacier melt).
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We cannot attribute these floods in Pakistan solely to climate change but labeling them as an extreme weather event that probably has a climate change component is logical; the current seasonal monsoon rains and flows in the Indus river and a few of its tributaries are a 1 in 100 year event. The signature of climate change will take some time to quantify, but 2010 has a confluence of weird weather that probably has a link to human-induced climate change. Consider: 2010 is the globally warmest year on record to date, the record high temperatures and wildfires in Russia, the exceptionally high rainfall and mudslides in China, the below average rainfalls in Bangladesh and most of India, and extremely high rainfall and flows in northern Pakistan rivers (which carry snow/glacier melt).
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Pakistan flooding: live webcast from the Asia Society
18/08/10 11:28
The Asia Society invites you to participate in our upcoming Pakistan Flood Response, scheduled for this Thursday, August 19th, 2010 at 8:30 am ET via live webcast. Online viewers are encouraged to submit their questions to moderator@asiasociety.org before and during the webcast. We would also appreciate your help in getting the word out about this event to your networks. Thank you!
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