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Extreme Cold: Another Harmful Consequence of Climate Change






Welcome, eco-wise viewers, to Planet Earth: Our Loving Home. Through a complex interaction of changing flows of deep sea currents, warming oceans, ice sheet melting at the poles, fluctuating global wind patterns and other factors, extremes at both ends of the temperature scale are being recorded across our world due to climate change.

Dr. Zong (m): So in the last 200 years, we saw the temperature was rising. That changed the long-term climate trajectory, which is very, very strong evidence for the argument that recent climate warming is due to meat. The warming trend is going to continue in the next few decades and it's quite, quite foreseeable that some extreme weather can happen more frequently because within the atmosphere it has more energy and the atmosphere becomes more dynamic.

Climate change researchers have found that animal agriculture is overwhelmingly responsible for the warming of our planet. Today we�ll focus on intense cold-related events and disasters which are one of the many harmful consequences of this enormously injurious activity.

Extreme cold events typically occur when temperatures in a region drop significantly below the average for that time of year. Humans, animals, plants and crops may be at risk in such weather, and public infrastructure is also susceptible to damage or destruction. For humans, exposure to frigid weather, whether indoors or outdoors, in some instances may cause serious health problems or even death.
Highly vulnerable groups during these periods include infants, the elderly, outdoor workers, the homeless and those living in homes that lack heat or are not well-insulated.

Depending on how far the temperatures dip, the cold may induce hypothermia, where victims show symptoms such as shivering, exhaustion, confusion, fumbling or uncoordinated movements, memory loss, slurred speech and drowsiness.

Another common health risk is frostbite, where the affected person may exhibit white or grayish skin and blisters as well as experience itching and/or numbness. Amputation may be required in some instances for severely frost-bitten areas of the body.

Freezing weather may also exacerbate existing health issues, especially chronic conditions. Crop damage from the chilliness may cause malnourishment in communities. Let us now review some of the cold-related disasters that have occurred across our world thus far in 2010, starting with Asia.


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The 2010 Pakistan Floods: Another Climate Change Catastrophe (In Urdu)

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Greetings, caring viewers, to another edition of Planet Earth: Our Loving Home.
In ２００９ hydrological disasters were the most frequent type of natural disaster comprising over ５３％ of all such events globally. Of the １８０ reported hydrological disasters worldwide, １４９ were floods and ３１ were wet mass movements like landslides, with over ５７.３ million victims.Compared to ２００８, the number of persons affected increased by ２７.４％. The continent with the largest occurrence of floods in ２００９ was Asia .

Today we focus on the disastrous floods that occurred in the South Asian nation of Pakistan during July and August ２０１０. Pakistan has a varied geography that includes plains, deserts, forests, hills and plateaus.
The country can be roughly divided into three main parts � the northern uplands, the Balochistan Plateau and the Indus River plain. The majority of the nation�s population of １７４ million lives along the Indus River.

In recent years Pakistan has experienced an increasing number of natural disasters including earthquakes, floods and droughts. In October ２００５, a ７.６ magnitude arthquake caused over ７０,０００ deaths and damaged approximately ６００,０００ homes. In addition, rapid melting of the Himalayan and Hindu Kush
mountain glaciers, the world�s third largest frozen fresh water reserve that feeds １０ important river systems in Asia, is seriously threatening the country�s long-term primary water supply.

Beginning in July ２０１０ the worst flooding in ８０ years hit Pakistan, causing unprecedented damage in the nation. Thus far, more than ２０-million people have been affected, with nearly ２,０００ deaths, almost ３,０００ injured and over １.９-million homes damaged or destroyed in the disaster. Three-quarters of the affected population live in the Sindh and Punjab provinces.

According to the website of the National Disaster Management Authority, which is a part of the Pakistani government: 『The magnitude [of the flooding] is so huge both in scale and destruction that it is more than twice than the Pakistan Earthquake ２００５, Cyclone Katrina ２００５, Indian Ocean Tsunami ２００４, Cyclone Nargis ２００８ and Haiti Earthquake ２０１０, all put together in terms of geographical space and population affected.』

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Climate Change Consequences: Destructive Floods Part 1


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Hallo eco-aware viewers and welcome to Planet Earth: Our Loving Home. Today in the first of a two-part series, we focus on the devastating effects of floods on people and our planet. Floods occur when enormous amounts of water partially or fully inundate land surfaces through such events as excessively heavy rainfalls, cyclones,
tsunamis, storm surges, icesheet and glacier melting, and so on.

Experiencing a serious flood can be a truly terrifying experience, as conditions are ever-changing and uncertain. Is it safe to drive through a flooded street? Can one walk through the high waters and not encounter dangerous sharp objects or worse, lose footing and be swept away by the swift currents?
Will people be able to survive the time without access to clean water and food?

In its numerous reports, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has observed that around the world there have been widespread increases in heavy rainfall events, even in places where the total amount of rain received annually has been decreasing.

Prominent scientists everywhere point to global warming as the reason for this worrisome phenomenon. Climate change researchers have found that animal agriculture is overwhelmingly responsible for the warming of our planet.

This harmful activity releases immense quantities of lethal greenhouse gases and the industry is also the primary cause of the majority of the world’s deforestation and land degradation.

The alterations to the planet’s atmosphere and land surfaces from livestock raising have wreaked havoc on the natural interactions between ecosystems and the hydrological cycle. Climate models cited in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports project that deleterious human actions such as factory farming which elevate the amount of greenhouse gases in the air will mean a continual upward trend in the number of violent weather events in many parts of the world, including those marked by excessively heavy precipitation.

Rising sea levels caused by climate change worsen the effect of storm surges and other similar weather extremes in coastal areas by increasing the chances that an inundation will occur