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Climate change can also be used more broadly to include changes to the climate that have happened throughout Earth's history. [38] Global warming—used as early as 1975 [39] —became the more popular term after NASA climate scientist James Hansen used it in his 1988 testimony in the U.S. Senate. [40] Since the 2000s, climate change has ...
Climate change in Pakistan is a major issue for the country. Pakistan is highly vulnerable to climate change. As with the changing climate in South Asia as a whole, the climate of Pakistan has changed over the past several decades, with significant impacts on the environment and people. [ 1] In addition to increased heat, drought and extreme ...
— Greta Thunberg, Stockholm November 2018 Thunberg says she first heard about climate change in 2011, when she was eight years old, and could not understand why so little was being done about it. The situation depressed her, and as a result, at the age of 11, she stopped talking and eating much and lost ten kilograms (22 lb) in two months. Eventually, she was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome ...
Climate change affects men and women differently. [ 1] Climate change and gender examines how men and women access and use resources that are impacted by climate change and how they experience the resulting impacts. [ 2] It examines how gender roles and cultural norms influence the ability of men and women to respond to climate change, and how ...
Climate resilience is a concept to describe how well people or ecosystems are prepared to bounce back from certain climate hazard events. The formal definition of the term is the "capacity of social, economic and ecosystems to cope with a hazardous event or trend or disturbance". [ 1]: 7 For example, climate resilience can be the ability to ...
National College of Arts. Website. https://zartajgulpti.com. Zartaj Gul ( Pashto, Urdu: زرتاج گُل ) is a Pakistani politician who served as Minister of State for Climate Change, in Imran Khan Government from 5 October 2018 until 10 April 2022 when Imran Khan was ousted by a no-confidence motion against Imran Khan motion.
Gilgit-Baltistan (/ ˌ ɡ ɪ l ɡ ɪ t ˌ b ɔː l t ɪ ˈ s t ɑː n,-s t æ n /; Urdu: گِلْگِت بَلْتِسْتان [12] listen ⓘ) [a], formerly known as the Northern Areas, [13] is a region administered by Pakistan as an administrative territory and consists of the northern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan ...
The average and variations of weather in a region over long periods of time, which can be related to surface variables such as temperature, precipitation and wind. climate change. Includes both global warming and its effects, such as changes to precipitation, rising sea levels, and impacts that differ by region.