Pakistan’s Climate Change Floods, Seen From Above

[hareem01]

Re: Pakistan’s Climate Change Floods, Seen From Above

Here’s the opinions of various experts and researchers and according to them there are various factors which caused the flood and climate change might be one of them.

Will the Pakistan floods strike again?

Notice that no one used the term “Global Warming” rather they used “Climate Change”. Big difference.

[firenze]

Re: Pakistan’s Climate Change Floods, Seen From Above

@hareem01

Here’s the opinions of various experts and researchers and according to them there are various factors which caused the flood and climate change might be one of them.
Will the Pakistan floods strike again? - BBC News

Notice that no one used the term “Global Warming” rather they used “Climate Change”. Big difference.

Global Warming is one of many factors for Climate Change. They are inter-related anyway.

From the article your posted:

During a warm period ending about 6,000 years ago, the Indus was a monster river, more powerful and more prone to flooding than today.

Then, 4,000 years ago, as the climate cooled, a large part of it simply dried up. Deserts appeared whether mighty torrents once flowed.

Professor Martin Gibling of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, a river expert who has worked in the region, thinks that changes in the strength of the monsoon caused by climate change may be to blame.

He explained: "Although many factors are involved, monsoon intensity is especially sensitive to the surface temperature of the Indian Ocean.

“During times of cooler climate, less moisture is picked up from the ocean, the monsoon weakens, and the Indus river flow is reduced.”

So even your posted article is saying, Global warming is one of the factor. If the temp continue to rise, the Indus will become a monster river again.

[hareem01]

Re: Pakistan’s Climate Change Floods, Seen From Above

@firenze

Global Warming is one of many factors for Climate Change.

The most general definition of climate change is a change in the statistical properties of the climate system when considered over periods of decades or longer, regardless of cause.[1]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change#cite_note-0)[2]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change#cite_note-1) Accordingly, fluctuations on periods shorter than a few decades, such as El Niño, do not represent climate change.

The term sometimes is used to refer specifically to climate change caused by human activity; for example, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change defines climate change as “a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods.”[3]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change#cite_note-2) In the latter sense climate change is synonymous with global warming.

In Pakistan flood’s case this obviously can’t be Global Warming.