Taimoor Akhtar

Water resources researcher and policy analyst. Developing scientific methods for sustainable co-existence of humans and freshwater ecosystems. @Cornell alum

[Responsible Statecraft @RStatecraft]

NEW @UzairYounus on how Washington is strangling its rising generation of foreign policy professionals over Israel-Gaza https://t.co/hKY1hbGHho

[Haris Mushtaq @haris0021]

Going interactive with #PakmeteoHist app! App allows you to interactively inspect the graphs, zoom in and out, and show daily values. Here you can play with it.
It covers 43 cities in Pakistan and uses reanalysis dataset.
https://t.co/KSTk257ZTw

#ClimateCrisis #heatwave

[Mansha Pasha @manshapasha]

The man who has spoken for everyone needs your voice today.

#ReleaseJibranNasir

[Windows Blogs @windowsblog]

Weather from Microsoft Start named the most accurate global forecast provider https://t.co/Aelonu7cPW

[Daanish Mustafa 🇵🇸 دانش مُصطفیٰ @Daanibhai]

A superb short video by @voxdotcom on #Pakistani #water & irrigation system. It describes how the colonial engineering paradigm has created the hazards in it. Featuring @ayeshasiddiqi12 & me. @DecoloniseGeog @kclgeography
https://t.co/ufDG5bpOOL via @YouTube

[RethinkingIndus @IndusRethinking]

in the animation the difference in using the recent normal period 1991-2015 and 1975-2000. When using these references, what is done is to move the baseline, that is, increase the positive anomalies when we choose an older period.
#ClimateChange #RethinkingIndus

[RethinkingIndus @IndusRethinking]

this visualization shows how daily mean temperatures in Islamabad, Pakistan in 2016 deviated from the average from 1991-2010:
#ClimateChange #RethinkingIndus

[Hasni Khan @langahwhotweets]

Saeen @abbasnasir59 asking that most vital question, like only he could. We, like early schoolers, get so caught up in the "putli tamasha", we don't see the hand behind the farce; or maybe, we have been collectively brainwashed into ignoring it. https://t.co/3Q01pIq2jQ

[Haris Mushtaq @haris0021]

Truly honored to be part of the study "Climate change likely increased extreme monsoon rainfall, flooding highly vulnerable communities in Pakistan" led by @wxrisk.
#ClimateChange #monsoon #Pakistan #Watermanagement
@drfahadsaeed

[Karachi Water Project @karachi_water]

Karachi Water Project (KWP) invites you to our second event of the semester on Thursday, September 15th in Soorty Hall at 2:30 pm. This event will focus on sharing findings from our recently published study that uses a mixed-methods approach to quantify
@HabibUniversity

[Taimoor Akhtar @drkupster]

@langahwhotweets @INFANTRY28 This is quite dangerous. As contaminated groundwater is almost impossible to clean.

[RethinkingIndus @IndusRethinking]

Preprint of our paper titled "Hydrologic Interpretation of Machine Learning Models for 10-daily streamflow simulation in Climate sensitive Upper Indus Catchments" is available for discussion in HESS
@haris0021 @drkupster @DrZiaHashmi2 @amjad87693030

[Daanish Mustafa 🇵🇸 دانش مُصطفیٰ @Daanibhai]

اگر سیلاب سے لڑیں گے تو ہمیشہ مُنں کی کھائیں گے. یہ ایک صدی کی سیلاب سے جنگ کی سوچ کا سبق ہے. ہم نیں انجینئیری کے غرور میں دریاؤں کا راستہ روکنے کی کوشش کی، اور آج نتیجہ سب کے سامنے ہے. وقت آ گیا ہے کہ ہم اپنی غلطیوں سے سیکھیں. ہمیں ماضی بعید کی طرح دریاؤں سے دوستی کرنی پڑے گی.

[Uzair Younus عُزیر یُونس @UzairYounus]

8/28: Based on additional data, we now estimate the economic impact of the 2022 floods to be $5.5bn.

Damages of:

- Homes: $2bn
- Tractors: $1.2bn
- Crops: $1bn
- Roads & Bridges: $335m
- Livestock: $200m

Direct support for:
- Crop Recovery: $323m
- Cash Transfers: $210m

[Taimoor Akhtar @drkupster]

@langahwhotweets @KiaMaslaHae Very well said @langahwhotweets. It is high time that we thoroughly re-evaluate the procedures used to estimate 100-year floods. As such prior estimates have been very wrong and have resulted in developments that were not designed to withstand recent floods (Munda is an example)

[Weather @Mystartweather]

The U.S. heat wave continues, particularly over the South-Central and Northwestern U.S. where daytime high temperature records will be challenged all week. Follow #MyStartWeather for the latest updates!
https://t.co/kfY5lp6OyH

[Hasni Khan @langahwhotweets]

@IqAwais All negotiation on Kashmir absolutely must center on "water" now. Squabbling over territory will have us dying of thirst in a decade.

[RethinkingIndus @IndusRethinking]

The visualization presents the Evolution of Temperature in #Pakistan since the beginning of the 20th Century.

#RethinkingIndus #ClimateChange
@AdilNajam @HNadim87 @IPRI_Pak @WWFPak @dr_xeo

[Taimoor Akhtar @drkupster]

@DrRazaSaeed @langahwhotweets Agreed on your observation @DrRazaSaeed. Think we need more of these. Initially, conversations will digress a loy but then they would become more coherent and focused as well.

[Taimoor Akhtar @drkupster]

@langahwhotweets I am into the second hour of this discussion. Its mostly political so far. Rafay Alam’s points were nice though.