HAMILTON, Canada, Sep 06 (IPS) – Monsoon flooding has occurred often in Pakistan but never to the catastrophic extent presently happening.
A distinguishing feature of this disaster is that no one blames the flooding’s unprecedented intensity and destructiveness on anything but climate heating. The clear link between the warming atmosphere and the frequency and duration of extreme weather events of this scale should not be lost on the rest of the world.
Read the full story, “Pakistans Climate Catastrophe: Lessons for the World”, on globalissues.org →
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