‘Fingerprint’ of global warming on devastating floods in Pakistan, experts say
Victims of flooding from monsoon rains carry grasses for their cattle after their flooded home in Sehwan, Sindh province, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022.
THE “fingerprint” of climate change is on the devastating floods in Pakistan, experts said, after analysis found it was likely to have increased the amount of extreme rainfall.
Large areas of Pakistan experienced record-breaking monsoon rains from June 2022 in pulses that caused the Indus River to burst its banks over thousands of square kilometres and led to urban flash floods and landslides.
More than 33 million people have been affected and 1,500 have died, while homes, roads, health centres and schools have been destroyed or damaged, livestock killed, cropland ruined and there have been outbreaks of disease.
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