The United Nations said that the Pakistan disaster, where over 14 million people have been impacted by the flooding and over 1,600 have lost their lives, is on a bigger scale than the 2004 tsunami. They also estimate that at least 20% of Pakistan is underwater. And as if those numbers weren’t shocking enough already, they are expecting more flooding.
The trend of extreme weather events is expected to continue in the future. Here’s what NASA has to say:
What we can say is that global warming has an effect on the probability and intensity of extreme events. This is true for precipitation as well as temperature, because the amount of water vapor that the air carries is a strong function of temperature. So the frequency of extremely heavy rain and floods increases as global warming increases.
At this rate, by the time I’m 80 years old we’ll probably have floods that will wipe out whole countries in a matter of days. I’m so not looking forward to that.
