Fact check: Is the West responsible for floods in Pakistan? 16.09.2022

Deutsche Welle | Sep 16, 2022 at 2:00 AM
  • Since June, Pakistan has been hit by record floods that have affected 33 million people and killed about 1,500.
  • In such scenarios, they ask whether the event was intensified by climate change and by how much, instead of asking whether an event is an outcome of climate change.
  • A caveat is that how often such rainfall is likely to occur is impossible to quantify because of the variability of the climate in the belt where Pakistan is located.