With the “era of global boiling” taking over from the “era of global warming,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres depicted a horrifying scene of the planet roasting, with “children swept away by monsoon rains, families running from the flames (and) workers collapsing in scorching heat.”
The widely believed statement that 2023 was a “hellish” summer is factual and supported by science. July 2023 was the hottest month on record, according to climate monitoring organizations such as NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NAOO), and the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
Sheetal Vishal, 33, stated that throughout the summer her kitchen becomes a furnace, or bhatti.
It cannot go anywhere with the amount of energy it generates, therefore it lingers.
Pakistan’s “runway population” of more than 240 million people, according to Dr. Ghulam Rasool, head of the Climate Change program at the International Union for Conservation of Nature, is the primary source of all of the country’s issues, including the UHI. The three factors—”air pollution, vehicular emissions, and waste burning”—that cause urban heat island syndrome (UHI) would increase with the number of people residing in densely populated, khichri-like neighborhoods devoid of adequate sewage systems, sanitation, and water supplies.
