1,100 Dead in Floods, a 3rd of Country Under Water: ‘Monster Monsoon’ Shakes Pakistan | What’s Causing it?
Pakistan is currently facing the deadliest rainy season in a few decades that have claimed more than 1,100 people, causing damage worth more than $ 10 billion and leaving almost one third of countries under water, encouraging international assistance to save after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif- led the appeal The government lacks money for assistance to handle crisis.
Early estimates have caused damage due to flooding killing Pakistan more than $ 10 billion, said the Minister of State Planning, added that the world has an obligation to help South Asian countries overcome the impact of human climate change.
Flash floods that have never happened before caused by monsoon rain that broke the records of Pakistani Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman said “Monster Monster Decade-Hashed Roads, Plants, Infrastructure and Bridges, killed more than 1,100 people in the last few weeks and affect more than 33 million, more than 15 percent of the 220 million country’s population.
While heavy rain, even destructive, not infrequently for Pakistani during the annual rainy season, damage to disasters from rain and floods this year has not been seen for decades.
Experts are of the view that cocktails of climate problems driven by global warming – the burning temperature, hotter air holds more moisture, extreme weather is getting wilder, melting glaciers – has a key role to planning Pakistani rain that has never happened, a country They say it doesn’t cause heating much, but continues to be beaten.
This year Pakistan has received the highest rainfall in at least three decades. So far this year it rains more than 780% above the average level, “AP news agency quoted Abid Qaiyum Suseri, Executive Director of the Institute of Sustainable Development Policy and members of the Pakistan Climate Change Council, such as saying.
While scientists showed fingerprints of this classical climate change, they have not completed complicated calculations that compare what is happening in Pakistan with what will happen in the world without warming, the AP report says, adding that the research, which is expected in a few weeks, will determine Formally how many climate change is a factor, if altogether.
