Voice of climate-by Naseem Sheikh

The climate of a region or country is known through the typical weather over a protracted amount of time. If a vicinity has a lot of dry days throughout the year than wet days, it'd be delineate as a dry climate; an area that has additional cold days than hot days would build it far-famed to own a chilly climate. Pakistan has four seasons: a cool, dry winter from December through February; a hot, dry spring from March through May; the summer season, or southwest monsoon amount, from June through September; and also the withdrawing monsoon amount of October and November. The weather extremes in Islamic Republic of Pakistan embody high and low temperatures, heaviest precipitation and flooding. the best temperature ever recorded in Islamic Republic of Pakistan is fifty three.5 °C(128.3 °F) that was recorded in Mohenjo-daro, Sindh on twenty six might 2010. Disaster state global climate change is probably going to increase climate-related natural disasters with the ...

The environmental field has experienced a major transition in the past 20 years. Climatic changes are actually happening and Earth is heating up, the glaciers melting and water is being consumed by the growing population. The changing climate leads to changes in the frequency and timing of extreme weather and climate events, and can result in unprecedented extreme weather and climate events. Erik Solheim is the Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) since May 13, 2016. He has an extensive career focusing on environment and development in government and international organisations. In his first interview with The News on Sunday, Erik seemed hopeful to work with current government and further the conservation agenda in Pakistan. Regarding the environmental issues that Pakistan is grappling with, Erik Solheim stood clear that all these environmental threats are man-made and that they can be solved by humans themselves.   Pakistan ...

The Lahore city and its surroundings continued to experience intermittent  heavy rain , which turned the weather pleasant after a months-long spell of heat .A total 252 millimeters of rain has been recorded in the city in the last 24 hours. However, the rain is still continuing to lash Lahore among other cities across Punjab. Pakistan heavy monsoon rain fall broke 38 years record and hopefully help in compensate the severe water shortage, lower mercury level and dry conditions. The country was facing worst water crisis since there have been no ‘good’ showers in the last five months along with two to three degree higher than normal temperatures. Mercury level at Lahore was first time hit to 50C . because of that dry  weather spell, dams around Islamabad were in critical situation. Therefore, the monsoon rains are being considered as a way out for addressing the current water scarcity situation. On Thursday, the Pakistan Meteorological Department said this ...

Pakistan is under black-outs due  not just because of terrorism, corruption, and inflation. No, mostly it’s  because of electricity and gas shortages and this in long run affects every sector of life which you can imagine. Natural disasters like The Great Earthquake and Flood-2010 have negatively affected our growth rate and a number of energy plants were partially or completely damaged. About 1.4 billion people today lack access to electricity, and current trends indicate that this will not change significantly by 2030. It is also estimated that 2.5 billion people will still use traditional biomass for cooking in 2030, with related health effects leading to 1.5 million premature deaths per year, mostly among women and children. The blame game about electricity and gas shortages is on full throttle here . Some blame the current Pakistani leadership thinking it has only happened recently. Today, Pakistan is in a severe energy crisis   Figure 1: Electricity Status of P...

Pakistan is one of the countries that contributes least to global climate change but, nevertheless, it has played a leading role in trying to formulate global consensus on cooperating to address it .Also, the country is cognizant of its development priorities and is actively seeking both financial and technological suppor, to place its undeniable future growth on to a low carbon trajectory. Global deforestation and degradation accelerated climate change and to counter this, initiatives such as Reduced Emission from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) was important as an alleviation response. The United Nation Framework Convention of Climate Change (UNFCC) was adopted in 1992 and Pakistan was one of its signatory along with 194 other nations. The study, by researchers at the University of California, Merced, concluded that rising temperatures associated with climate change could result in many more severe forest fires in the coming decades. Professor Anthony Westerling and his tea...