Pakistan floods shows threat from warmer world: scientists

Source(s): Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org

"Pakistan, like any flood-prone country, needed early warning systems, better storage of drinking water, even to move people from vulnerable areas," said Andrew Ash, who leads a climate adaptation programme for Australia's state-funded research body the CSIRO in a report by Reuters.

"There are definite limits to adaptation. We often talk about adaptation as if we can adapt our way out of trouble," he told Reuters. "But these sorts of events highlight that we can't adapt our way out of all the impacts of climate change."

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