Elemental Elites

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This summer, devastating floods in Pakistan submerged entire villages and marooned residents. As of mid-September, around 1,500 people are known to have died, and more than 33 million people have been displaced. Floodwaters slowly receding, the sheer scale of damage is being revealed. Hundreds of thousands of homes have been damaged or destroyed, while many public health facilities, water systems and schools have been destroyed or damaged. Children are living out in the open with their families, with no drinking water, no food, and no livelihood. Urban flooding especially in karachi, brings the city to a halt, disrupts education, destroys markets and endangers the life of the citizens. Furthermore Scientists say that climate change has made extreme rain in South Asia more likely. Widespread cases of malaria, dengue fever and Covid-19 have exacerbated the strain on the country’s infrastructure. Recently even a member of our team has been caught by dengue virus.

Brutal heat waves have been common occurrences in pakistan with daily temperatures rising above 45 degree Celsius, Increasing the toll of heatstroke victims and making daily life incredibly hard for the citizens. The unprecedented heat storm has led to a severe water shortage. Today millions of people are now staring at a major food crisis as the yield production has greatly reduced. Pakistan’s glaciers are melting at the fastest rate in human history. Global warming hardens the soil making it unable to absorb moisture resulting in water logging and floods.

Pakistan CO2 emission has increased by 8.78% from the previous year. Adding on the emission of excessive CO2 in the atmosphere is dominated by burning of fossil fuels and industrial made products. This causes impact on the balance of atmosphere, also known as greenhouse effect.

It has been estimated that temperature change by 1°C would decrease 1-3% decrease in food production. Pakistan being an agricultural and textile dependent country is greatly damaged economically. Karachi being a coastal city, lacks green cover and construction of new buildings is turning the city into a concrete jungle. Scientists have warned for decades that some kinds of extreme weather are becoming more frequent and intense as more heat-trapping gases get pumped into the atmosphere. As the planet warms, more water evaporates from the oceans. Hotter air also holds more moisture. So storms like those that come with the South Asian monsoon can pack a bigger punch.

It is quite challenging to predict the weather such as extreme rainfalls and floods precisely due to complex weather systems constantly interacting with each other. Moreover weather itself without the effects of climate change and global warming is also uncertain. So it’s hard to differentiate between natural climate and climate affected by global warming. We believe that meteorologists should run separate climate models with and without the effects of global warming using substantial data from the past and compare it to see which aspects of the climate have and will presumably evolve to extreme conditions solving the problems of singular climate models rendering obsolete due to everchanging temperature of the earth.

ESM earth model systems are being used currently but the main drawback is that they’re very broad and often inaccurate.

Nasa satellites are used to extract major information covering the climate changes around the world. In 2022 it costs around 600 dollars to remove one ton of co2 from the atmosphere. As investment pours in and technology matures and begins to scale, it is likely that these costs will plummet over the next decades. Additionally we think that specialized Artifical Intelligence can be trained and implemented on the atmospheric conditions of specific countries. AI analyses data many more times than humans being and gives more accurate projections. However we are still contributing way to less and technology will not effortlessly solve everything. We need to utilize limited resources longer, design goods that are sustainable that fullfill our energy requirements. The situation’s dire, but not hopeless.

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We utilized of footage from NASA agency regarding the floods and to show the overflow of water. Our video also consisted of many graphs and charts from NASA relating to global warming, increasing CO2 concentrations in air and global temperature increase against solar irridance and connected it to the floods in our country. Moreover, we used footage from the NASA’s youtube channel to view global climate and weather models which inspired us to make suggestions to improve them. Additonaly we made use of an animation of glaicer meltdown from Nasa youtube channel.

Our hackathon journey has been absolutely splendid. It was our biggest hackathon event and we learned lots. It certainly helped us build up our social interaction and presentation skills as well as our team work and coordination. I was interested in space learning and it is was inspired me to be part of this event. My team gave our best to this project and did extensive research for two consecutive days in order to produce a produce that not only enhanced our knowledge but will also help others and specially our youth understand world climate change in an a simpler and fun way. I would like to thank NASA, the Local (Karachi) leads and Salim Habib university who organized such an amazing event.

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