Electronic Media Flash floods kill more than 300 in Pakistan | Dr. Fahad Saeed Greenpeace: An urgent call for a course-correction to 1.5°C | Dr. Fahad Saeed No Policy, No Plan—Just Prayers for Climate? | Dr. Fahad Saeed Heatwaves or Rain: What’s Going on With Climate? | Dawn News English New science on climate overshoot Just 2 Degrees: What Climate Collapse Looks like, What Happens After You Flush Fahad Saeed on BBC News talks about devastating flood of Pakistan,2022 Hurricane Dorian caused great damage in the Bahamas due in part to how slowly it passed over the island. Millions are suffering, but the heat wave will trigger other environmental & humanitarian crises Has the planet entered ‘the age of global boiling’? Fahad Saeed talks about catastrophic heat waves in Pakistan ,Bangladesh and India, 2022. Fahad Saeed on Aljazeera talks about super floods of Pakistan, 2022 Fahad Saeed on Dunya News talks about super floods of Pakistan,2022 'Monsoon on Steroids': Investigating Pakistan's unprecedented floods. Podcasts and Radio ‘The poorest of the poor are at the forefront of extreme weather’. François Gemenne: “It is the habitability of the Earth that is shrinking”. The Current with matt Galloway. Print Media Spain breaks record temperature for April. “It seems we are living in a world of a new normal here,” said Dr. Fahad Saeed. ‘Endless record heat’ in Asia as highest April temperatures recorded. “The poorest of the poor are going to suffer the most,” said Dr. Fahad Saeed. ‘Hotter and hotter’: Swathes of Asia sweat in heatwave. “The extreme heat that we’ve witnessed over the last few days will hit the poor the hardest,” said Dr. Fahad Saeed. Will the pledges made in Geneva make their way to the flood victims in Pakistan? Dr. Fahad Saeed said: “The government must come up with not only well planned but out-of-the-box solutions, and quickly”. Speakers call for providing adequate funds to water, sanitation and hygiene sector. Dr. Fahad Saeed emphasised the need for introspection to see flaws in policies. Pakistan must prepare itself for global challenges. Dr. Fahad Saeed said: “The latter bagged double climate finance of $14 billion in comparison to that of $7.7bn secured by Pakistan”. A third of Pakistan is underwater as deadly floods leave desperate residents facing ‘doomsday’. Dr. Fahad Saeed said: “The recent heat wave that saw temperatures soar past 122 degrees Fahrenheit was made 30 times more likely due to climate change”. Climate scientists explain Pakistan’s ‘unprecedented’ floods. Dr. Fahad Saeed said: “The floods travelling down the Indus River from the north to the Arabian Sea provided a considerable lag time”. Climate change and freak weather have hit many countries, causing immense destruction. But they have been better prepared to bear the brunt of nature’s anger. Dr. Fahad Saeed said: “Pakistan is at its nadir of political”. Climate change worsened Pakistan’s devastating flooding. Dr. Fahad Saeed said: “Intense heat waves over the country in the spring also primed the season”. Climate change is real. So are illegal structures on Pakistan’s riverbeds. According to Dr. Fahad Saeed: “Pakistan will witness even more intense weather events”. How Pakistan floods are linked to climate change. Dr. Fahad Saeed says: “People with the smallest carbon footprints are suffering the most”. Pakistan emits less than 1% of the world’s planet warming gases. It’s now drownig. “What is happening right now at 1.2 degrees centigrade of warming is not because of the poor people in Pakistan,” Dr. Fahad Saeed said. ‘Monster monsoon’: why the floods in Pakistan are so devastating. “We are witnessing the worst flooding in the history of the country,” said Dr. Fahad Saeed. In a First Study of Pakistan’s Floods, Scientists See Climate Change at Work. “The representation of all these processes can get tricky when you’re applying a climate model,” Dr. Saeed said. Climate change intensified Pakistan rains up to 50%, report indicates. “There is an urgent need to reduce vulnerability to extreme weather in Pakistan.” Floods ‘made up to 50% worse by global heating.’ Rainfall increasing dramatically in the region since humanity had started pouring greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the scientists found. Deadly Indian heatwave made 30 times more likely by climate crisis. “One can imagine how bad it would be even for a 1.5C warmer world,” said Dr. Fahad Saeed. In sizzling South Asia, birds are falling from the sky. “It’s been two years where we are witnessing almost springless seasons,” said Dr. Fahad Saeed. Scant hope for relief as repeated heatwaves scorch Pakistan. “Extreme heat is not alien in our part of the world,” said Dr. Fahad Saeed. The extraordinary heat waves in India and Pakistan explained. “We had clear weather which caused a lack of rain in March and April,” said Dr. Fahad Saeed. An Unprecedented Heat Wave in India and Pakistan Is Putting the Lives of More Than a Billion People at Risk. “Even a healthy person exposed to these temperatures for more than seven or eight hours can not survive,” said Fahad Saeed. South Asia most vulnerable region to climate change. Dr. Fahad Saeed highlighted that the IPCC report enforced the risk for South Asia as one of the hotspots. Drought compounds humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan as conflict intensifies “Afghanistan is a good example of climate injustice. It has historically no role in the climate change mess but they are bearing the brunt of it,” Dr. Fahad Saeed said.
