TY - JOUR
T1 - Floods wreak havoc in Pakistan : a deadly reality of climate change exposing frailty of global response efforts
AU - Shakoor, Awais
AU - Farooq, Taimoor Hassan
AU - Arif, Muhammad Saleem
AU - Shahzad, Sher Muhammad
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Given recent unprecedented anthropogenic activities, dynamic shifts in atmospheric balance are rapidly becoming the new normal, triggering climatic upheavals of varying intensity worldwide. It is almost certain that some of the recent extreme weather events, such as the Australian bush and Amazon forest fires, the Russian and Canadian heat waves, the African droughts, and the change. Another important reason to grasp the reality of climate change is the declining biodiversity of insects, including pollinators and predators, which could limit crop productivity worldwide (Raven and Wagner, 2021). Yet both the frequency and magnitude of these catastrophic events around the world suggest that they are occurring more rapidly than most climate models predict. Global warming is currently causing unrivaled glacial retreat and rapid melting of the glaciers in many parts of the world. Pakistan is home to 7253 glaciers, the largest number outside the Arctic polar region, and is one of the countries most affected by climate change due to the accelerated melting of these glaciers. According to recent reports on the glacial hydrology of the Himalaya-Karakoram range, a population of nearly one billion people could be affected by devastating climate change-induced snowmelt and flooding events (Azam et al., 2021).
AB - Given recent unprecedented anthropogenic activities, dynamic shifts in atmospheric balance are rapidly becoming the new normal, triggering climatic upheavals of varying intensity worldwide. It is almost certain that some of the recent extreme weather events, such as the Australian bush and Amazon forest fires, the Russian and Canadian heat waves, the African droughts, and the change. Another important reason to grasp the reality of climate change is the declining biodiversity of insects, including pollinators and predators, which could limit crop productivity worldwide (Raven and Wagner, 2021). Yet both the frequency and magnitude of these catastrophic events around the world suggest that they are occurring more rapidly than most climate models predict. Global warming is currently causing unrivaled glacial retreat and rapid melting of the glaciers in many parts of the world. Pakistan is home to 7253 glaciers, the largest number outside the Arctic polar region, and is one of the countries most affected by climate change due to the accelerated melting of these glaciers. According to recent reports on the glacial hydrology of the Himalaya-Karakoram range, a population of nearly one billion people could be affected by devastating climate change-induced snowmelt and flooding events (Azam et al., 2021).
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:71127
U2 - 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101877
DO - 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101877
M3 - Article
SN - 1574-9541
VL - 72
JO - Ecological Informatics
JF - Ecological Informatics
M1 - 101877
ER -