More than 1,000 people have been killed since the start of Pakistan's monsoon season this summer. The country's climate minister has dubbed the rains, which have sparked flooding and landslides across the country, a 'climate catastrophe.'
The floods have destroyed nearly 300,000 homes, caused widespread electricity outages, and made roads impassable. More than 33 million people — one in seven Pakistanis — have been affected by the floods, the"By the time this is over, we could well have one-fourth or one-third of Pakistan under water," Sherry Rehman, a Pakistani senator and the country’s minister for climate change, told Turkish news outlet"It is not stopping, the rain is relentless.
, adding that "many districts are beginning to look like they're part of the ocean" and that aid helicopters cannot find dry land to drop rations.“Pakistan has never seen unrelenting torrential rains like this. This is very far from a normal monsoon. It is a climate dystopia at our doorstep,” Rehman told the Guardian.
The floods only add to the misery that tens of millions in Pakistan experienced during spring and summer, when the country was hit with afeaturing sweltering temperatures of above 120°F. The extreme heat led to a damaging glacial lake outburst flood as Himalayan glaciers shed ice at rapid rates. A climate attribution study found that human-caused climate change made the heat wave, which also affected India and lasted for months,
and at least 1.8°F hotter, on average than it would have been without increased levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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