by Judith Curry
With the Ganges–Brahmaputra delta sinking, the race is on to protect millions of people from future flooding. – Quirin Schirmeier
by Judith Curry
With the Ganges–Brahmaputra delta sinking, the race is on to protect millions of people from future flooding. – Quirin Schirmeier
Posted in South Asia
Lets take a look at the new ‘Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage’ agreed to by the UNFCCC COP in Warsaw last week, and its potential for breeding a climate of corruption.
Posted in Policy, South Asia
by Judith Curry
On the complexity of sea level rise in the Bangladesh delta – global warming may be the least of their concerns.
Posted in Climate change impacts, South Asia
by Judith Curry
A new publication in Nature Geoscience projects an increase in runoff from Himalayan catchmants during the 21st century, despite a decline in glacier size.
Posted in Climate change impacts, South Asia
by Judith Curry
Global prediction partnerships would cost little and reduce the regional carnage caused by floods, droughts and tropical cyclones. – Peter Webster
Posted in Policy, South Asia
by Judith Curry
My Georgia Tech colleagues Peter Webster, Violeta Toma and Hyemi Kim have a new paper out entitled “Were the Pakistan floods predictable?” The topic of the 2010 Pakistan floods were discussed on previous threads here and here.
The punchline of this paper is:
Posted in South Asia
by Judith Curry & Peter Webster
The flooding of the Indus River system in Pakistan during the summer and autumn of 2010 was a cataclysmic humanitarian disaster. The destruction wrought by the 2010 floods could set Pakistan back years or even decades, weaken its struggling civilian administration and add to the burdens on its military, distracting from their efforts to keep the Taliban in check.
Posted in South Asia
by Judith Curry and Peter Webster
The 2010 Pakistan floods began in July 2010 following following a series of heavy monsoon rains in the northern part of the country.
Posted in South Asia