![]() ![]() However, when the hurricane season finally arrived, it did so in a memorable way. ![]() For the first time in 25 years, not a single named tropical storm emerged above the Atlantic Ocean in the month of August. The Atlantic hurricane season of 2022 started late. Hurricane Ian seen from the International Space Station. Hurricane Ian batters Florida and Fiona makes landfall in Canada Pakistan, which according to the CDP produces less than 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions, is a textbook example of the disproportionate impacts of climate change on poor and developing nations.Īccording to an IPCC statement released with the new report, "almost half of the world's population lives in regions highly vulnerable to climate change." Moreover, the number of casualties from climate change-related weather disasters in those regions increased by a factor of 15 over the past decade. Six months after the floods officially subsided, contaminated and stagnant water still affects nearly 2 million of Pakistan's 230 million inhabitants, according to the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP). The floods killed over 1,700 people and displaced more than 2 million in relatively poor Pakistan and plunged the country into a humanitarian crisis. The floods, the worst in Pakistan's recorded history, struck as a result of intense monsoon rains, which, together with unusually high temperatures, exacerbated the melting of glaciers that cover the country's spectacular mountain ranges. From June to October 2022, vast areas of the country were submerged in flood waters. While water levels in European rivers were hitting record lows, the mountainous Pakistan in southwestern Asia struggled with the exact opposite problem. The extent of flooding around Pakistan's Lake Hamal in August 2022. According to the European Union's environmental program Copernicus, the drought of 2022 may be the worst the continent has experienced in 500 years. instated water usage restrictions, including car washing and garden irrigation bans. Authorities in several European countries, such as Spain, the Netherlands, France and the U.K. Over a period of several months, satellites watched from space as the usually green and lush continent turned a parched beige. The Danube and Po rivers, in Eastern Europe and Italy, respectively, experienced similar conditions. In Germany and the Netherlands, water levels in the mighty Rhine River, Western Europe's most important waterway, dropped so low that ship traffic had to be restricted for weeks. For a few days in July, temperatures soared to unprecedented (for England) 105 degrees F (40 degrees C), smashing records across the country. The proverbially rainy England didn't see a drop of rain in weeks. The summer of 2022 was like no other across swaths of western and central Europe. The landscape around Italy's river Po dried out during the summer of 2022. ![]()
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