GENEVA, Oct 8 — Increasingly intense floods and droughts are a “distress signal” of what is to come as climate change makes the planet’s water cycle ever more...
Budget 2025: Tax expert calls for tech incentives, creating jobs for youths, and bringing back GST to bolster Malaysia’s economic and fiscal growthA resident transports his dog on a board as he wades through flood waters in Chiang Mai, on October 6, 2024. — AFP picGENEVA, Oct 8 — Increasingly intense floods and droughts are a “distress signal” of what is to come as climate change makes the planet’s water cycle ever more unpredictable, the United Nations warned yesterday.
“We receive distress signals in the form of increasingly extreme rainfall, floods and droughts which wreak a heavy toll on lives, ecosystems and economies,” she said. “A warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, which is conducive to heavy rainfall. More rapid evaporation and drying of soils worsen drought conditions,” Saulo said.Water is either too abundant or insufficient, plunging many countries into increasingly difficult situations.In Libya, two dams collapsed due to a major flood in September 2023, claiming more than 11,000 lives and affecting 22 percent of the population, according to the WMO.
Rising temperatures also mean glaciers have melted at unprecedented rates, losing more than 600 billion tonnes of water, the worst in 50 years of observations, according to preliminary data for September 2022 to August 2023.
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