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Catastrophic floods in Pakistan displace 33 million; Plus climate change and megafloods in California

 

A submerged street near Nowshera, Kyhber-Pakhtunkhwa province (2010) | Image by Abdul Majeed Goraya / IRIN.

0:08 – Deadly floods in Pakistan kill over 1,100 people and displace more than 33 million residents. We discuss with Cyril Almeida (@cyalm) who has spent over a decade covering the government-military nexus in Pakistan.

0:33 – We discuss climate change and megafloods in California with Daniel Swain (@Weather_West), a climate scientist at UCLA who studies the dynamics and impacts of the Earth’s changing climate system.