Climate change has pushed Pakistan to its worst flooding from the past decades. Floods are made more likely by the more extreme weather patterns caused by long-term global climate change. Mainly, warmer temperatures, enhance the possibility of evaporation and release of moisture into the atmosphere, which eventually leads to heavy rainfall. Stronger monsoons cause more rain, and the monsoons are becoming more severe. The increasing strength of the monsoon is linked to increases in atmospheric CO2 and the import of moisture from the southern hemisphere, which suggests stronger rains in the future as CO2 levels rise. Therefore, climate change is a factor.

From July through August 2022, Pakistan has faced extreme rainfall and exceeded the normal monsoon rainfall, and become the wettest August. The heavy rainfall saturated soil, preventing the ground from soaking up more water from storms in August. Rainfall during the monsoon season peaks in August, which has continued to bring remarkable downpours while, destroying houses, crops, and infrastructure and killing over 1000 people across the country. The most unusually heavy rain fell across the provinces of Baluchistan and Sindh, which have experienced significant widespread damage. All of this indicates that the monsoon’s usual path has changed as a result of climate change, and this will have long-term effects on Pakistan’s human security and infrastructure.

In order to build, adapt, and protect our homes, crops, businesses, and infrastructure, we must start considering climate adaptation. Reduced greenhouse gas emissions are of utmost importance if rising global temperatures are to be kept under control. climate change is due to deforestation. So for nature-based climate solutions, Reforestation and land restoration are the examples that should be taken into consideration because they can both lessen the effects of extreme weather events and absorb CO2.

But the question is; will heavy rain keeps getting worse? So well yeah, that depends on Mitigation strategies like adopting renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and small hydro, putting a price on carbon, ending fossil fuel subsidies, by Implementing climate-smart agriculture, and nurturing forest landscapes. Says worldbank.org If the country implements on mitigation strategies in the next decade or so, that will help control heavy rain, especially later this century.