Climate change in Pakistan
The effects of climate change and global warming on Pakistan, the melting of glaciers in the Himalayas, threatening the volumetric flow rate of many of the most important rivers of Pakistan. In Pakistan, such effects are projected to impact millions of lives. As a result of ongoing climate change, the climate of Pakistan has become increasingly volatile over the past several decades; this trend is expected to continue.
Global warming
Global warming is the unequivocal and continuing rise in the average temperature of Earth's climate system.[1] Since 1971, 90% of the warming has occurred in the oceans.[2] Despite the oceans' dominant role in energy storage, the term "global warming" is also used to refer to increases in average temperature of the air and sea at Earth's surface.
Climate Change
Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions, or in the distribution of weather around the average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme weather events). Climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics, and volcanic eruptions. Certain human activities have also been identified as significant causes of recent climate change, often referred to as "global warming".
Food security
Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change globally, and in Pakistan, which is one of the worst hit countries of climate change, agriculture is badly affected.
See also
- Climate Change
- Global warming
- Climate of Islamabad
- Climate of Karachi
- Climate of Lahore
- Climate of Faisalabad
- Climate of Rawalpindi
- Climate of Peshawar
- Climate of Quetta
- Climate of Multan
- Climate of Hyderabad
- Climate of Nawabshah
- Climate of Gwadar
- 2001 Islamabad Cloud Burst
- List of extreme weather records in Pakistan
External links
- A 5000-yr Record of Climate Change in Varved Sediments from the Oxygen Minimum Zone off Pakistan, Northeastern Arabian Sea
- Climate change in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan
- Impact of climate change in Pakistan
- Pakistan worst affected by climate change
- Climate change in Pakistan: innovation in the absence of government support
- Global Warming and it's effects in Pakistan
References
- ↑ "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal" p.2, IPCC, Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis - Summary for Policymakers, Observed Changes in the Climate System, p. 2, in IPCC AR5 WG1 2013.
- ↑ "Ocean warming dominates the increase in energy stored in the climate system, accounting for more than 90% of the energy accumulated between 1971 and 2010." p.6,IPCC, Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis - Summary for Policymakers, Observed Changes in the Climate System, p. 6, in IPCC AR5 WG1 2013.