During this monsoon season from June to August, Pakistan has been suffering from some of the worst thunderstorms the country has been through, destroying infrastructure and devastating communities.
Global warming is the main cause of these unpredictable weather arrangements. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), more heat creates an immense amount of water vapor, which fuels thunderstorms and floods.
Pakistan has had a long history of struggling past monsoon seasons, but this is the most brutal one yet. Furthermore, experts say that in the future, weather conditions will only worsen. Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s minister for climate change, said that if icebergs continue to melt, we should prepare for more rain and flash floods.
“Pakistan has long ranked among the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world, according to the Global Climate Risk Index, which tracks the devastating human and economic toll of extreme weather events. The country is estimated to have lost nearly 10,000 lives to climate-related disasters and suffered about $4 billion in losses between 1998 and 2018,” wrote New York Times reporters Zia ur-Rehman, Christina Goldbaum, and Salman Masood
Over the last 5 weeks, the storms have killed 282 people while 5600 houses have been dilapidated and several roads and bridges have been wrecked, leaving the whole country a mess and the government desperate.
Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, had many of its businesses closed after devilish rains throughout the city caused flash floods and tore apart the city. According to CNN, that treacherous night, there were 2.3 inches (60 mm) of rain, “equivalent to an entire month’s worth of rainfall in just a matter of hours”.
These storms have wrecked the whole country of Pakistan. Electricity has been off for hours to avoid water reaching the wires.
“This is a national disaster,” said Rehman.
Articles: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/25/asia/pakistan-karachi-torrential-rain-climate-crisis-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-can-climate-change-affect-natural-disasters#:~:text=With%20increasing%20global%20surface%20temperatures,more%20powerful%20storms%20to%20develop. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/24/world/asia/pakistan-monsoon-floods.html
Global warming is the main cause of these unpredictable weather arrangements. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), more heat creates an immense amount of water vapor, which fuels thunderstorms and floods.
Pakistan has had a long history of struggling past monsoon seasons, but this is the most brutal one yet. Furthermore, experts say that in the future, weather conditions will only worsen. Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s minister for climate change, said that if icebergs continue to melt, we should prepare for more rain and flash floods.
“Pakistan has long ranked among the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world, according to the Global Climate Risk Index, which tracks the devastating human and economic toll of extreme weather events. The country is estimated to have lost nearly 10,000 lives to climate-related disasters and suffered about $4 billion in losses between 1998 and 2018,” wrote New York Times reporters Zia ur-Rehman, Christina Goldbaum, and Salman Masood
Over the last 5 weeks, the storms have killed 282 people while 5600 houses have been dilapidated and several roads and bridges have been wrecked, leaving the whole country a mess and the government desperate.
Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, had many of its businesses closed after devilish rains throughout the city caused flash floods and tore apart the city. According to CNN, that treacherous night, there were 2.3 inches (60 mm) of rain, “equivalent to an entire month’s worth of rainfall in just a matter of hours”.
These storms have wrecked the whole country of Pakistan. Electricity has been off for hours to avoid water reaching the wires.
“This is a national disaster,” said Rehman.
Articles: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/25/asia/pakistan-karachi-torrential-rain-climate-crisis-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-can-climate-change-affect-natural-disasters#:~:text=With%20increasing%20global%20surface%20temperatures,more%20powerful%20storms%20to%20develop. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/24/world/asia/pakistan-monsoon-floods.html
