Worst Floods in Pakistan

Xfsiwpek · Sep 19, 2011

According to media news things are going bad to worst in Pakistan flood affected areas. Due to worst flood over five million people have already displaced and urgent need of food and shelter. Four million acres agriculture land already swept away in flood water and economic cost of flood disaster is causing further harm to country weak economy. Most of the affected people are still not able to start their lives after last year worst flood of Pakistan history. Due to last year flood millions of people are still homeless in affected areas and still not able to get any assistance from abroad. Pakistan government has already appeal for international help. According to aid agencies world response is very slow and due to continues rains , worst weather and bad infrastructure rescue teams and aid agencies are still not able to provide any help to most of affected people. Pakistani media is showing miserable picture of affected people most of them are living besides roads and trying hard to save their castles, daily necessities of lives.

Professor Peabody · Sep 19, 2011

Maybe if they stopped playing both sides of the fence with the terrorists. Till then the more that drown the better.

waltky · May 16, 2016

Global flooding 'will threaten billion'...

Billion people face global flooding risk by 2060, charity warns
Mon, 16 May 2016 - By 2060 more than a billion people worldwide will live in cities at risk of catastrophic flooding as a result of climate change, a UK charity warns.

A British aid charity is warning that by 2060 more than a billion people worldwide will live in cities at risk of catastrophic flooding as a result of climate change. A study by Christian Aid says the US, China and India are among the countries most threatened. It says the Indian cities of Kolkata and Mumbai will be most at risk. The eight most vulnerable cities on the list are all in Asia, followed by Miami in the US. The report urges governments to take action to reduce global warming and invest in disaster reduction programmes.

Rescuers distribute drinking water along flooded street in Wenling, eastern China's Zhejiang province

Dr Alison Doig, the report's author, told the BBC World Service that people living in large coastal cities were particularly at risk. "I think it's cities like Kolkata, Dakar, the big mega-cities of the south and the emerging economies where the people are most vulnerable to exposure to sea-level rises and to higher rain events," she said. "Flooding in these cities can cause massive damage, but can also threaten life." Dr Doig warned that Florida was likely to suffer extensive flooding. "The whole of Florida is totally vulnerable," she said. "It is so low-lying, it is virtually swampland reclaimed. So significant climate change... raising water half to a full metre this century, will take out an awful lot of Florida and a significant amount of Miami."

The study says that the priority should be to rapidly reduce carbon emissions and limit temperature increase by switching from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy. It says vulnerable communities must be helped by better protecting homes and livelihoods. The study also calls for international systems to help communities recover from devastating storms and floods.

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Storm over weather presenter told to cover up on air
Mon, 16 May 2016 - The weather presenter made to cover up mid-forecast

When TV weather presenter Liberte Chan was handed a cardigan and told to cover up during her broadcast it wasn't because there was a chill in the air. The US meteorologist was in the middle of her California weekend forecast when she was given a grey cardigan to put on. Chan asked why she was being forced to wear it, to which someone off camera responded: "We're receiving lots of emails." It's not clear how many people had contacted the station, KTLA 5 in Los Angeles, to complain about Chan's attire. But on social media it wasn't so much the dress, but the cardigan that many had an issue with.

Liberte Chan being given a cardigan

There was a furious response from viewers who thought Chan had been treated outrageously. "Whoa @KTLA I didn't like the dress either, but you don't have to make her cover up-ON AIR like that. How embarrassing," Heather Poole tweeted. Emily Sears tweeted: "KTLA you owe @libertechan an apology. As a viewer and a woman I'm completely disturbed to see this woman publicly shamed doing her job." Another tweet from Gaby Dunn read: "The meteorologist in this video has like four degrees and is working in a male dominated field and this is what it's like."

Sweatergate

As users of social media continued in their defence of Liberte's choice of attire the programme presenters read some of the emails to which they had referred to. "Liberte Chan's dress is totally inappropriate," read one. "Liberte Chan looks like she stayed out late and came to work in the same dress," said another. But more than 8,000 tweets have since been directed to the LA based TV station prompting the hashtags #righttobarearms #IstandwithLiberteChan and #sweatergate. Earlier in the day Chan had tweeted a picture of the black beaded dress but following the awkwardly orchestrated cover up she was forced to explain her reason for choosing it. She took to social media to say that a different and more demure black and white dress that she had wanted to wear that morning did not work, because the pattern on it clashed with the green screen, on which graphics for the broadcast are projected. Chan had previous experience of the problems that can occur when an outfit is not green screen compliant.

Chan attempted to draw a line under the furore on the programme saying "It's a dress people, can we talk about my weather report?" She has since posted on her own website that the stunt was a joke: "For the record, I was not ordered by KTLA to put on the sweater. I was simply playing along with my co-anchor's joke, and if you've ever watched the morning show, you know we poke fun at each other all the time. There is no controversy at KTLA. My bosses did not order me to put on the cardigan, it was a spontaneous moment. I truly love my job, I like my bosses and enjoy working with my co workers. Since talking to my team, I want our viewers to know it was never our intention to offend anyone. We are friends on and off the air and if you watch our newscast, you know that."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-36300564
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Margot2 · May 16, 2016

waltky said: ↑

Global flooding 'will threaten billion'...

Billion people face global flooding risk by 2060, charity warns
Mon, 16 May 2016 - By 2060 more than a billion people worldwide will live in cities at risk of catastrophic flooding as a result of climate change, a UK charity warns.

See also:

Storm over weather presenter told to cover up on air
Mon, 16 May 2016 - The weather presenter made to cover up mid-forecast
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The Saudis have been building flood shelters in Pakistan since 2010..

http://www.arabnews.com/node/355069

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