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Blaming Pakistan’s Flood Disaster on Human Driven Climate Change May Be Premature

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Blaming Pakistan’s Flood Disaster on Human Driven Climate Change May Be Premature
A man (L) along with a youth use a satellite dish to move children across a flooded area after heavy monsoon rainfalls in Jaffarabad district, Balochistan Province, Pakistan, on Aug. 26, 2022. Fida Hussain/AFP via Getty Images
Kashan Pirzada
Gabriël Moens
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The World Climate Declaration (WCD), signed by over 1100 reputable scientists, including Nobel Prize winners (pdf), states that there “is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts, and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent.”
Kashan Pirzada is an associate professor of accounting at Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz School of Accountancy (TISSA). He served as an Associate Fellow of the Asian Research Institute for Corporate Governance (ARICG) and senior researcher at the University of Malaya. He is the recipient of the University Utara Malaysia excellence service award in 2020.
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