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| − | The | + | "The following post was written by Dr Ricky Rood, a professor at the University of Michigan's Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences. It originally was posted on 17 August 2010 as Pakistan: A Climate Disaster Case Study on his Climate Change blog at The Weather Underground. It is reposted here -- unedited (though we've added emphases in some places). Following the original text, we add a list of "Online Resources" for those interested in additional information." |
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| + | "As University of Michigan atmospheric scientist Ricky Rood wrote on the Weather Underground blog, “What is happening in Pakistan cannot be described in a single word – like disaster or catastrophe. We are watching a combination of climate, weather, population, societal capacity, and geopolitics whose scope and ramifications are far beyond a “historic flood.”" | ||
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| + | http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/pakistan-flood-pictures/ | ||
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| Blog Title: | Pakistan: A Climate Disaster Case Study |
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| Publication Date: | 2010/08/17 |
| URL: | http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/comment.html?entrynum=168 |
| Short Description: | The 2010 monsoon-related flood as a climate disaster |
| Blog Attributes | The combination of weather and climate and people and infrastructure and agriculture come together to create a climate disaster. Climate projections would suggest that this sort of disaster will become more common in the future. Analysis of the Pakistani floods and response to the floods serves as a potential case study to inform us about the future. |
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"The following post was written by Dr Ricky Rood, a professor at the University of Michigan's Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences. It originally was posted on 17 August 2010 as Pakistan: A Climate Disaster Case Study on his Climate Change blog at The Weather Underground. It is reposted here -- unedited (though we've added emphases in some places). Following the original text, we add a list of "Online Resources" for those interested in additional information."
"As University of Michigan atmospheric scientist Ricky Rood wrote on the Weather Underground blog, “What is happening in Pakistan cannot be described in a single word – like disaster or catastrophe. We are watching a combination of climate, weather, population, societal capacity, and geopolitics whose scope and ramifications are far beyond a “historic flood.”"
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/pakistan-flood-pictures/
