Food Security At Stake: Met chief warns about weather pattern

ISLAMABAD: Chief meteorologist Dr Ghulam Rasool has said that the changing weather patterns, rapid melting of glaciers and rising sea level can damage the country’s cultivable land. Talking to a news channel he said that the water table is already on the rise in Sindh. “Pakistan’s problem has always been too much water and too little water.” Punjab is suffering from a spike in rains while, there is drought in Tharparkar and Balochistan. “Over the last century, an increase of 0.76 degrees Celsius was observed but in the last 14 years alone, an increase of 1.1 degrees Celsius has been recorded,” he said. Rasool said that July and August remained dry in 2014 but when it rained in September, it rained so heavily that three days made up for the two earlier dry months.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 17^th, 2015.